about the tenuous situation. that risk is very real. i watched this for four years. i was so deeply involved to make sure that day never came when the iranians were threatening americans, we took out the leader irgc quds force to make sure he never threatened another american. this administration instead talk about the murder of khashoggi. that is bad thing but iranian efforts to murder people all across the world, the fact they continue to sponsor terror from hezbollah on israel and from hamas and the iraqi shia militias, the iranians are the largest threat in the region. they could close down the strait, drive energy prices higher. this administration tried to appease them. this has failed. this isn t academic. this matters to people across the united states of america. what happens in tehran doesn t stay there. it impacts us. when you get that wrong, when you try to appease someone like the ayatollah who is a religious
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The compound the US bombed was very close to the border of Iraq, southwest of Erbil, but arguably could be seen as an offensive act against a state that did not cause the original harm. File image | Photo Credit: AP
In its sixth week in office, the Biden administration has already used military force in the Middle East. Seven bombs were dropped on a group of buildings in Syria associated with pro-Iran Shia militias, allegedly responsible for a recent attack on a US and coalition base outside Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. The attack has been characterised as carefully calibrated; the US President chose one of the less aggressive options presented to him, with the goal of keeping the damage inflicted proportional to the attacks that triggered the action.
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military and intelligence officials will not say if the new information comes from overhead surveillance by drones or aircraft intercepting communications or detainees who have been willing to talk. we anticipate that baghdadi and other senior isil leaders have been moving away. reporter: iraqi shia militias now insist he is hiding west of mosul not far from the syrian border. u.s. special operations forces who have been looking for baghdadi from the air and on the ground have gotten clues from raids against top isis operatives. we continue to recover sensitive intelligence in locations in iraq and syria, we ll continue to use that intelligence and use what we learn about their movements. reporter: the top u.s. commander noting baghdadi is increasingly isolated by the killing of those around him, making him vulnerable. al baghdadi probably wishes
murder of 58 civilians at the hands and this is the important distinction. we talk about the assad regime or the syrian arab army. in truth there is very little left of the assad regime. this is a proxy war being fought chief baby iran and iranian built militias on the ground including imported afghan and pakistani shi a death squads, including iraqi shi a militias that are technically now part of the iraqi state security establishment that is said to be an ally and treated as an ally buy the united states. these are the guys shooting women and children dead in the streets under the cover of russian air power. now, we can have a conversation about what donald trump purports to do about this. there has been one consistent thread that has gone throughout his candidacy for president and throughout this transitional period and that is everybody seems to be talk pointing to top national security posts are hawk issish when it comes to iran. mike flynn has called for regime change for all i