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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards set up covert Iraqi cells to attack Gulf neighbors, sources say

by | Jun 19, 2026 | JPost | 0 comments

Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataib Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026. (photo credit: THAIER AL-SUDANI/REUTERS)
Three or four cells, each comprising about 10 elite Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim fighters, launched at least seven drone attacks from desert locations near the southern cities of Basra and Samawa.