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Iran's New Threat to Saudi Arabia: Armed UAVs from Iraq
A senior Iraqi militia and a U.S. official said the royal palace in the capital, Riyadh, was attacked last month by three Iranian-made UAVs.
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Thursday, February 25, 2021, 2:30 p.m.
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Armed UAVs that attacked the royal palace in the Saudi capital last month were launched from Iraq, a senior pro-Iranian Shiite militia and an American
source said
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senior militia official told the Associated Press this week that three UAVs had been launched from the Iraq-Saudi border area By an unrecognized faction supported by Iran.
The drones crashed in the royal compound in Riyadh on January 23, and initially the suspicion fell on the Houthi rebels in Yemen. However, they denied that they were responsible for the attack, which was relatively unusual, in the Saudi capital. The
senior militia spokesman said the first time She acknowledged that Iraq was the scene of the attack, pointing to the challenge facing the Iraqi government in the face of militant attacks in the country. Days after the attack on Saudi Arabia, social media posted a statement accepting responsibility for the militia "Avalia and al-Haq." ISIS in Baghdad two days earlier, the
same militia official, who did not identify himself by name, said parts of the drones were brought from Iran and assembled in Iraq, then launched from it.
He did not specify in which area of the border the launches took place and did not provide further details about that unknown militia.
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The parts were brought from Iran, and assembled in Iraq.
UAV exercise of the Revolutionary Guards (Photo: AP)
Many small groups have sprung up in Iraq following the assassination of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Suleimani and Iraqi militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis in January last year.
There has been a split in the victim since then, but some Washington experts believe it was intended to hide the identities of the major militias, and allow them to take responsibility for attacks under other names.
A U.S. source said Washington believes the attack on Yamama Palace came from Iraq.
The source, who spoke anonymously, did not elaborate or say how the United States came to this conclusion.
An Iraqi official, who also spoke anonymously, said the United States had passed on its intelligence to the Iraqi government.
In the past month, with the inauguration of Joe Biden as President of the United States, there has been an escalation in Iraq, including a rocket attack on the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad on Saturday.
Biden discussed this with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Khazimi, in his first conversation with an Arab leader since his inauguration a little over a month ago.
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Attacks from Iraq will challenge Saudi Arabia's air defense systems, which currently focus on threats from Iran in the northeast and Yemen in the south.
The drones are small enough and can fly low enough to evade the radars.
Iraq has recently been trying to strengthen its economic relations with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states.
Last week, the Iraqi president paid a visit to the United Arab Emirates, and this week Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein arrived in Saudi Arabia, apparently to discuss the attack.
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