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Crisis in Iraq tests its stability and Iran’s sway
August 3, 2022 A power struggle in Iraq between the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and rivals aligned with Iran is testing Tehran’s ability to stave off a conflict that could damage its interests and...
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Iranian influence turns PKK-weakened Kurdistan into regional battleground
By Shelly Kittleson August 6, 2022 Attacks continue on vehicles carrying alleged Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as some claim the group is taking orders from...
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Argentina arrests four Iraqis or Iranians with fake French passports
August 12, 2022 Argentina has detained four “Iraqi” citizens with fake French passports at Ezeiza airport outside Buenos Aires since Monday. Security Minister Fernandez Anibal said on Wednesday that...
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Pro-Iran Coordination Framework begin rival Baghdad sit-in
August 13, 2022 Supporters of Iraq’s pro-Iran Coordination Framework began their own Baghdad sit-in Friday in riposte to a sit-in outside parliament by the rival Sadrist movement launched two weeks...
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Tanker Trackers: Iran ditched Iraqi oil blending scheme for better way to...
August 19, 2022 An apparent scheme by Iran and its shipping industry allies to blend U.S.-sanctioned Iranian oil with Iraqi oil in 2020 was short-lived, according to tanker trackers who say Tehran...
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Kolbar and young father shot dead on Iran-Iraq border
August 27, 2022 A young kolbar or border courier has been killed by security forces while crossing between Iran and Iraq, the human rights observatory Hengaw reports. Ribwvr Rashidi, 30, was reportedly...
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Iran closes its borders with Iraq, halts flights amid violence
August 30, 2022 Iran has closed its borders with Iraq and urged its citizens to avoid traveling there, a senior official said on Tuesday, amid an eruption of violence after Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr...
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Iran reopens borders as relative calm restored in Iraq
August 31, 2022 Relative calm has been restored in Iraq after influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr urged all his supporters to leave the streets following a day of violent clashes that killed about...
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Iran Guards, Lebanese Hezbollah, Sadr rivals discussed confronting him with arms
August 31, 2022 Four leaders of Iraqi Shiite factions met with two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah party at a house in Baghdad in mid-August. Just...
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Will Tehran’s strategy of stripping Sadr from religious authority succeed?
By Track Persia August 31, 2022 On Tuesday, two days after he had announced that he was resigning from politics when at least 30 of his followers had been killed and hundreds more had been injured in...
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