Sunday’s attack comes amid tensions following last month’s parliamentary elections.
President Joe Biden “strongly” condemned Sunday’s failed assassination attempt against Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, which has heightened tensions in the country over last month’s elections. “Cowardly rocket and drone attacks don’t build homelands and don’t build a future,” al-Kadhimi said during a televised speech. The attempt on al-Kadhimi’s life has been characterized as a “dramatic escalation” by one expert amid ongoing tensions between the Iraqi leadership and Iran-backed militias that rejected last month’s parliamentary elections.
