Two intelligence officials speaking to Newsweek said Iran helped to instigate the violent demonstrations in Iraq, where both Washington and Tehran's interference has been increasingly questioned.
The Iranian government has played a direct role in organizing the demonstration into the U.S. embassy in Baghdad in a violent demonstration distinct from the protests sweeping Iraq, an Iraqi intelligence official and senior Pentagon official toldthat the demonstrations were"not an Iraqi uprising."
However, the official said, the protesters at the embassy"were directly influenced, orchestrated, prodded by the Iranians." Members of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces militia wielding Kataib Hezbollah flags try to breach the outer wall of the U.S. diplomatic mission in the capital Baghdad, on December 31, during a rally to vent anger over weekend airstrikes that killed pro-Iran fighters in western Iraq.The episode is the latest conflict as the feud worsens across the region between the U.S. and Iran.
Dramatic scenes of Monday's protests were reminiscent of the takeover of Washington's embassy in Tehran in 1979. The Islamic Revolution toppled a CIA-backed monarchy by storming the U.S. compound and holding diplomats hostage for 444 days. It sparked a decades-long rivalry further inflamed by Trump's decision last year to leave a multilateral nuclear deal with Tehran and impose heavy sanctions..
Opened in 2009 at a cost of roughly $736 million to construct, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad covers 104 acres, and is among the largest American embassies in both staff size and budget, according to the Congressional Research Service.Tuesday that the embassy is holding in"Force Protection Charlie," a military term for the force protection level that applies when either a terrorist or hostile act incident occurs near U.S.
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