The trove of leaked Iranian intelligence reports largely confirms what was already known about Iran’s firm grip on Iraqi politics. Army soldiers search a presidential palace in Baghdad. They also detail the extent to which Iraq has fallen under Iranian influence since the American invasion in 2003, which transformed Iraq into a gateway for Iranian power, connecting the Islamic Republic’s geography of dominance from the shores of the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.Ģ003 U.S. The leaked cables offer an extraordinary glimpse inside the secretive Iranian regime. Mahdi, when he secured the premiership in 2018, was seen as a compromise candidate acceptable to both Iran and the United States. official cautioned, a “special relationship could mean a lot of things - it doesn’t mean he is an agent of the Iranian government.” But no Iraqi politician can become prime minister without Iran’s blessing, and Mr. The exact nature of that relationship is not detailed in the cable, and, as one former senior U.S. Mahdi, who in exile worked closely with Iran while Saddam Hussein was in power in Iraq, had a “special relationship with the I.R.I.” - the Islamic Republic of Iran - when he was Iraq’s oil minister in 2014. This article was reported in partnership with The Intercept, a nonprofit investigative news organization.Īccording to one of the leaked Iranian intelligence cables, Mr. The unprecedented leak exposes Tehran’s vast influence in Iraq, detailing years of painstaking work by Iranian spies to co-opt the country’s leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the Americans to switch sides and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq’s political, economic and religious life.
The documents are contained in an archive of secret Iranian intelligence cables obtained by The Intercept and shared with The New York Times for this article, which is being published simultaneously by both news organizations. Now leaked Iranian documents offer a detailed portrait of just how aggressively Tehran has worked to embed itself into Iraqi affairs, and of the unique role of General Suleimani. Mahdi are part of its long campaign to maintain Iraq as a pliable client state. It was not the first time General Suleimani had been dispatched to Baghdad to do damage control. Qassim Suleimani, head of Iran’s powerful Quds Force, and he had come to persuade an ally in the Iraqi Parliament to help the prime minister hold onto his job. The visitor was there to restore order, but his presence highlighted the protesters’ biggest grievance: he was Maj. In particular, they denounced the outsize influence of their neighbor Iran in Iraqi politics, burning Iranian flags and attacking an Iranian consulate. The city had been under siege for weeks, as protesters marched in the streets, demanding an end to corruption and calling for the ouster of the prime minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi. Omniscience will confirm on who among the player's units Spy was invoked on, as the player will be able to see the unit marked with the spy symbol.In mid-October, with unrest swirling in Baghdad, a familiar visitor slipped quietly into the Iraqi capital.The target's units LOS is likely to be smaller, making a Spy on a Greek scout unit provide more LOS to the Loki player than to the Greek player owning the scout. The Spy provides 27 LOS over the target unit. Players facing Loki can check manually in the diplomacy settings if the god power has been used and thus sometimes pin the possible traitors down to a small group of units, often grouped to not be engaged in forward hunting or other important activities anymore. Another use is to boost exploration by using the power on an enemy scout.
It also enables the player to see how to disrupt the enemy's economy. It is best to use it on a civilian unit, as military units are likely to be killed.
This makes it very useful for performing reconnaissance on the enemy. Unlike other god powers, the enemy receives no notification that Spy has been used.
When invoked on an enemy unit, it shows the surrounding area of the unit to the player until it is killed.
Shows LOS of an enemy unit Spy is a Norse Archaic Age god power in Age of Mythology that is available to worshipers of Loki.