Iran's Activities and Influence in Iraq

Abstract

Iran is materially assisting all major Shiite Muslim political factions in Iraq, most of which have longstanding ideological, political, and religious ties to Tehran, and their armed militias. The Administration notes growing involvement by Tehran in actively directing, training, and arming Shiite militiamen linked, to varying degrees, to hardline cleric Moqtada Al Sadr. Some analysis goes so far as to see a virtual proxy war between the United States and Iran inside Iraq. This report will be updated. See CRS Report RL32048, Iran: U.S. Concerns and Policy Responses, by Kenneth Katzman.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 14, 2008
Accession Number
ADA486505

Entities

People

  • Kenneth Katzman

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Counter WMD
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Agreements
  • Chemical Weapons
  • Commerce
  • Explosively Formed Penetrators
  • Governments
  • International Organizations
  • Iran Iraq War
  • Iraqi-War
  • Military Operations
  • Personnel Management
  • Security
  • Terrorists
  • Training
  • United States
  • War
  • Weapons
  • Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation and International Security
  • Political Violence and Terrorism Studies.