Baghdad
Testimony: Iran’s Global Force Projection Network: IRGC Quds Force and Lebanese Hezbollah
Iranian Influence in the Levant, Egypt, Iraq, and Afghanistan
This report is a product of the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War.
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