Israel's F-35s are Targeting Iraq: Do Baghdad's Missile Defenses

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : The sources revealed that the strikes targeted Iranian 'advisors' and a ballistic missile shipment that had recently arrived from Iran to Iraq."
43% : "The base lies 80 kilometers from the border with Iran and 40 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.
37% : Also in 2018, Arab press made dubious claims that IAF F-35s had flown over Iran.
37% : The Ashraf base in Iraq, a former base used by the Iranian opposition People's Mujahedin of Iran, was targeted by an air raid," according to the newspaper.
37% : An Israeli strike in Iran would be risky even with F-35s, given distance to the target - about a thousand miles from Tel Aviv to Tehran -- Iranian air defenses (including Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft missiles) and potential Iranian retaliation.
33% : As so often in the Middle East, especially in the shadow war between Israel and Iran, it's hard to know exactly what happened.

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