The Wall Street Journal says it was Israel that carried out the raids on the sites of the Iraqi Shiite militia Badr last month, and if true, these are the first Israeli raids on Iraq since the raid on the nuclear reactor in 1981.
The newspaper pointed out that there is no state or entity until today claimed responsibility for the raids that took place on 19 and 22 July last; the first camp martyrs in the area of Admiral Brigade of 16 popular crowd in Salahaddin province, and the other camp Ashraf Diyala province.
In an article written by Jonathan Spire, director of the Middle East Center for News, Analysis and Research at the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, Israeli officials remained silent on reports that Israel had carried out the raids, asserting that only Israel could implement them, At a lower level than Israel is the organization of the state, the United States and its allies in the region.
Israel's weight
Spear said state regulation lacked the ability to launch air strikes, and the United States was busy at the time in very important diplomatic talks to force Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions and ease tension that could lead to open conflict with Tehran, something Washington and its allies , And the US Central Command has already denied that its forces had any role in the air attack on Iraq, but said it was aware of it.
Spyer said the raids were not the first Israeli raids on Iraqi Shiite militias; they raided them in June 2018 near the Syrian al-Bu Kamal near the Iraqi border to prevent the transfer of Iranian weapons to the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Jonathan commented that Israel's bombing of Iranian or pro-Iranian forces inside Iraq - whatever their dependence - was quite different from bombing inside Syria, but the Israeli security establishment has become very concerned in recent months after growing evidence that Iran is using Iraqi Shiite militias to transfer weapons to the party God of Lebanon and as a fulcrum for hitting Israel with ballistic missiles from western Iraq.
Iran's experience in Syria
Spyer said that the armed Shiite militias in Iraq could be used by Iran to its teeth to pressure Israel, providing the world as independent, giving Tehran a chance for reasonable denial, adding that Israel is aware of this strategy used by Iran with Hezbollah as well, Not to repeat Iran in Iraq.
The writer attributed to Israeli spokesmen publicly saying that Iran's increasing use of Iraqi weapons by Iraqi Shiite militias to store, deploy and transport weapons was proof of the success of the air war on Iran's infrastructure in Syria.
The writer concluded his article by expecting that the situation in the region will be more complicated after the Iraqi decision to absorb the Shiite militia forces in the official Iraqi army, which was under the pretext that these militias obey the decision of the Iraqi state and not act as a parallel army to the Iraqi army, saying that these militias will continue to work for Iran; Which will drag Iraq as a state into a conflict with Israel.