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31 December 2018

A senior Israeli defence official assessed that "Iraq is under growing influence of the... Qods force and Iran", adding that Iraq could be seen "as a convenient theatre for entrenchment, similar to what they did in Syria, and to use it as a platform for a force build-up that could also threaten the State of Israel". 

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