00:00I wanted to ask you what you thought the rationale was for dragging Iraq in.
00:05What's Iran trying to achieve, do you think?
00:09Well, it's the same.
00:11It uses its proxies in Lebanon and in Iraq, actually,
00:16to turn these countries also into part of this conflict or fighting on their side.
00:24We've seen the armed outlawed militias in Iraq have targeted their own, I mean, the state's institution,
00:36the headquarter of the Iraqi general intelligence hotels.
00:41The other day, they kidnapped an American journalist in daylight in downtown Baghdad.
00:50The oil fields in Basra, Iraqi radar system.
00:55So really, they're trying to create as much chaos as possible.
00:59I don't know what they will get out of this.
01:02But Kurdistan has been subjected to a very aggressive and hostile offensive from both sides,
01:13from the Iranian side and from inside Iraqi territories.
01:16But the Iraqi is helpless, is powerless, really, vis-Ã -vis these militias,
01:25to bring them under control or to follow them or to name them
01:29or to stop their payment, at least, because they are under the government payroll.
01:35So it's very, very awkward, very dangerous, explosive situation throughout the country.
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