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Saturday, November 2, 2024
Senior official in Iraqi pro-Iran militia says it’s coordinating with Tehran on response to Israel
Fighters lift flags of Iraq and paramilitary groups, including al-Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, during a funeral in Baghdad for five militants killed a day earlier in a US strike in northern Iraq, on December 4, 2023. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A senior official in the pro-Iran Hezbollah al-Nujaba militia says Islamist groups in Iraq are fully coordinating with Tehran on a response “at the appropriate time and place” against Israel for last week’s airstrikes.
Israel’s airstrikes on October 26 came in response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack on October 1.
“When Israel attacked Iran it violated Iraqi airspace and international norms, and the United States cooperated with it, despite its security agreements with Iraq,” Haider al-Lami, a member of the militia’s political bureau, tells Lebanese news outlet Al-Akhbar.
“Iran has the right to attack Israel from any point in Iraq,” he adds.
