Lost amid the news of the coronavirus relief deal, Britain’s variant strain of the coronavirus, and President Trump’s election disputes, military tensions between the United States and Iran are rising rapidly.
On Sunday, an Iran-supported militia launched rockets at the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq. No Americans were harmed, but an Iraqi soldier was wounded. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quickly attributed the attack to Iranian-controlled militias. The top culprit is a somewhat deniable subset of the Kata’ib Hezbollah organization, Iran’s primary military proxy in Iraq.
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