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Iran was the first country [2] to pledge assistance to Iraq to fight ISIL, deploying troops in early June 2014 following the North Iraq offensive. [3] [4]President of Iraq Fuad Masum has praised Iran as "the first country to provide weapons to Iraq to fight against the ISIL Takfiri terrorists".
Iranian Brigadier-General Massoud Jazayeri stated that Iran could best help Iraq by providing it with direction on its "successful experiments in popular all-around defence" that included "mobilising masses of all ethnic groups." [46] Iran believes cooperation and unity among Iraq's fractious militias are essential in its battle against ISIL. [43]
Later that month Iran started flying drones over Iraq, [321] and by August, according to sources like Reuters, Iranian soldiers were in Iraq fighting ISIL. [322] One war correspondent suggested that Iran "joined the air war" against ISIL on 21 June.
Israel blew up an Iran sponsored Syrian missile factory after its elite commandos raided it last September. The missiles posed an existential threat to Israel amid its war against Tehran's proxies.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Iran–Israel proxy conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict, the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, and the Iran–Turkey proxy conflict Israel (orange) and Iran (green) shown within the Middle East Date 16 February 1985 – ongoing (39 years, 11 months, 1 week and 3 days) Location Worldwide ...
Zawahiri's mediation was rejected by al-Baghdadi, resulting in the eruption of armed conflict between ISIL and al-Qaeda and its allies. In 2014, ISIL proclaimed itself a worldwide caliphate and changed its name to the Islamic State which in a year grew to control territory with a population of millions.
The 2017 Tehran attacks were a series of two simultaneous terrorist attacks that occurred on 7 June 2017 that were carried out by five terrorists belonging to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) against the Iranian Parliament building and the Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini, both in Tehran, Iran, leaving 17 civilians dead and 43 wounded.
Spanning 1.6 million square kilometers, Iran borders 13 countries and controls access to the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint through which nearly 20 percent of the world’s oil supply flows.