Israel attack Iranian proxies in Iraq?

Washington Examiner:
Israel is suspected of being behind a series of unexplained explosions in Iraq.

“Iran has no immunity, anywhere,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters in Ukraine. That warning was an oblique response to a question about a series of mysterious blasts in Iraq, where Israel is suspected of targeting Shiite Muslim militias that were allowed to mobilize against the Islamic State.

The groups threaten to function as paramilitary forces loyal to Tehran, making Israeli airstrikes a strategically significant move to thwart the pariah regime’s regional ambitions.

“There is going to be no geographical limitation for the regional pushback on Iran by Israel,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow and Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Examiner. “That could be really a game-changer in the region for how you push back on Iran, because Iraq is so central to Iran's regional project.”

Taleblu stressed that it is not “fully confirmed” that Netanyahu’s government is responsible for the explosions, but the operations would not be unprecedented. Israel hasn't struck in Iraq since 1981, but it has targeted Iranian forces in Syria for years, as Netanyahu refused to allow the theocratic regime to use the Syrian civil war as a cover to place major military installations on Israel's northern border. Those Syrian positions are part of Iran’s effort to establish a “land bridge” to Lebanon, the home of Iran’s chief terrorist proxy, Hezbollah. To reach Syria and Lebanon, though, Iranian fighters must travel through Iraq.
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Israel refuses to be a punching bag for the Islamic religious bigots of Iran.  It is attacking its proxies in the region and taking other steps to weaken the current regime in Iran.

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