by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – The United States has warned the Iraqi government that unless it prevents Iran-backed militants from launching attacks against Israel from Iraq, the Israeli government will soon order air strikes against Iraq, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
Among other attacks against Israel, a drone strike claimed by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq killed two Israeli soldiers and wounded 24 others at a military base in the Golan Heights in early October.
According to sources cited by the Saudi news outlet Al-Hadath, the Biden administration has told Iraq it has run out of “all means of pressure on Israel,” and called on Baghdad to take swift action to stop the Iran-backed attacks on the Jewish state.
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar himself called on the UN Security Council to demand Baghdad stop the attacks by paramilitaries in Iran’s “axis of resistance,” TOI said.
On Wednesday, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani reportedly responded to Sa’ar’s statement by accusing Israel of seeking a pretext to attack Iraq, TOI reports.
At the same time, however, Al-Sudani reportedly directed Iraq’s security forces to block paramilitary activity by forces that are not under the Iraqi government’s control, TOI said.
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