A report by the Arabic website Al-Jarida says israel is willing to expand the conflict with Tehran from Syria to Baghdad.
israel has obtained a “list of targets inside Iraqi territory,” writes Arabic website Al-Jarida, as quoted and translated by The Jerusalem Post's Seth J. Frantzman. According to the Arabic website, Tel Aviv “has a list of Iranian military sites used to transport weapons, equipment and elements to Syria” and intends to bomb them to stop what it sees as Iran's military buildup.
The website also claims it obtained photos of several of those sites, which include border crossings with Iran near Mehran, east of Baghdad, and also another crossing near Basra. Frantzman's personal website provides some details.
“In the past two months, Al-Jarida obtained exclusive aerial photographs of the targets that Israel intends to hit, including border crossings with Iran, such as Mehran and Bashmak [??], along with the Shalamjah border with Basra and near Kuwait,” Frantzman's translation of Al-Jarida reads, with question marks indicating where the translation is unclear.
According to Al-Jarida, Israel has been monitoring what it claims to be “Iranian attempts to create a land corridor from Tehran through Baghdad to Syrian territory.”
The website notes that some of the sites in Iraq currently under the control of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were formerly under the control of the US military.
The sites include “H3 [air…
