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IDF intel chief: Iran could use Iraq as springboard for attacks on Israel
A senior military official warns that increasing Iranian influence in Iraq means the country could be used as a base from which Tehran could launch attacks on Israel.
“Iraq is under growing influence of the Quds Force and Iran,” Maj. Gen. Tamir Hyman, military intelligence chief, tells a conference in Tel Aviv, according to the Reuters news agency.
Iran could “see Iraq as a convenient theater for entrenchment, similar to what they did in Syria, and to use it as a platform for a force build-up that could also threaten the State of Israel,” Hyman says.
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