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delivers and the Starbucks UK app, subject to availability while stocks last. I'm John Batsch with Bill Rajo, the Foundation for the Defensive Democracy, the

Long War Journal.

Over these last weeks since the Israeli launch into Gaza to clean out the Hamas gangsters,

there have been attacks on US deployments in Syria and Iraq.

They are now attacks on international shipping into the Red Sea.

All of these are related in some fashion to Iran. They are using surrogates.

One of, or some of those surrogates are Iraqis who are backed by Iran.

And Bill and his colleague Benin Van Talibou put up a Generation Jihad podcast I recommend to everybody to talk about the death of

Abu Taqah al-Saiidi in Iraq.

Who was he, Bill, and what is this, what is the relationship to the Iraqi government?

Yes, Abu Takwa al-Saidi was a

I would call him a mid to upper level commander within a group called

Harakot all Harakot Hezbollah al-Njaba.

This is one of the many Shia terror groups that are backed by Iran.

They're malicious, but they're also part of what Iraq calls its popular

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