Amid the escalating Iran-US-Israel war, Iraq is increasingly becoming one of its central fronts, bringing back into sharp focus a chronic structural dilemma: the role of militias embedded within the state and the consequences of their conduct for Iraqi sovereignty and stability. At the core of this dynamic is a deep contradiction: state-affiliated forces operating in alignment with an external agenda, effectively shaping Iraq’s war and peace decisions beyond the government’s control.
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