Beirut and Baghdad reject proxy control, demanding a full state monopoly on weapons as Iran’s regional architecture fractures under economic and internal decay.
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Muqtada al Sadr has announced the strategic dissolution of Saraya al Salam, shifting structural leverage away from autonomous armed proxy networks in Iraq.
Iraq’s PMF attacks US forces to stay relevant. Post-war, structural pressure may force transformation—or extinction.
Washington must deepen its partnership with Iraqi Kurdistan by providing air defenses to counter Iranian-backed militia strikes and ensure regional stability.
Iraq’s complicity with Iran-backed militias during the current war demands a U.S. recalibration of security aid and targeted sanctions against Baghdad officials.
Iraq’s governance reaches a point of terminal absurdity as state-funded militias attack the very national infrastructure the government protects.
Iraq’s “balancing act” has failed as Iranian-aligned militias and U.S. retaliatory strikes turn the country into a focal point of regional chaos.
“Iran created Frankenstein. The P.M.F. was designed as an instrument of Iranian power projection, but it has developed its own interests, economy, and political identity.”
Iraq’s parliament is advancing a law to permanently institutionalize the Iran-backed PMF as a parallel military structure.
U.S. ambiguity on the PMF risks Iraqi stability and elections, demanding clearer support for sovereignty.