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Over the last month, Iraq’s fragile security order has been severely tested by bombings and rocket attacks in three major cities. On Jan. 21, two suicide bomb explosions in Baghdad killed 32 people and injured about 110 others. This was the first major attack in the capital since bombings in January 2018 killed 27 people. Both these attacks were claimed by Daesh. On Feb. 15,
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“I called for the administration to respond to the recent attacks on US and coalition targets, and I commend them for doing just that,” said Mr McCaul.
“Responses like this are a necessary deterrent and remind Iran, its proxies and our adversaries around the world that attacks on US interests will not be tolerated.”
In contrast,
some high-profile Democratic allies of the president questioned the legality of the strike under US law.
“The American people deserve to hear the administration’s rationale for these strikes and its legal justification for acting without coming to Congress,” Tim Kaine, a senator from Virginia, said
Biden administration sending wrong message to Iran regime
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
February 26, 2021 00:18
An F-16 fighter jet outside a hardened hangar at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, July, 2015. (AP Photo)
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The Iranian regime has begun testing the Biden administration by escalating its aggressive and belligerent policies in the region. A barrage of rockets on Saturday targeted an airbase in Balad, north of Baghdad, where a US defense company is based. A few days before that, a dozen rockets struck coalition forces at a US base next to Irbil international airport, northern Iraq. Six people were wounded and a civilian contractor with the American-led anti-Daesh coalition was killed. The Kurdish authorities had to close the airport for a short time and warned residents to stay at home.