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Iraqi militias have bombarded US assets in Iraq for weeks. Flames rose from the embassy compound on March 17 while rockets and drones sought to evade its air defenses. The US military is hitting Iranian targets hard inside Iran, but it is time for President Donald Trump to step up the effort against Tehran’s proxies in Iraq.
The militias have attacked bases that host US forces across the country. Iran’s proxies also struck hotels that they claim house US servicemembers in the capital of Baghdad and the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region. In southern Iraq, militia drones have targeted US-operated energy infrastructure.
President Trump included degrading Iran’s regional terror network as a goal of the Iran War. This will require targeted military action against Iraqi militias and sanctions on their political and financial enablers in Baghdad.
The last time tensions escalated to this level was between October 2023 and February 2024, after the Hamas-led October 7 massacre in Israel that killed 1,200 people. Iran-backed militias launched a sustained campaign of attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria—more than 200 claimed attacks, with rockets and drones targeting US forces almost daily. Faced with this onslaught, Washington hesitated. The Biden administration did not respond militarily as the strikes mounted, projecting weakness rather than resolve. The Islamic Republic’s proxy network came to believe it could target American forces with impunity.
