Did Israel attack Iran from Iraqi airspace? What about sovereignty?

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[size=52]Did Israel attack Iran from Iraqi airspace? What about sovereignty?[/size]

[size=45]The limited nature of the Israeli strike on Iran and its failure to target oil or nuclear facilities did not prevent fears of expanding the circle of conflict in the region to include Iraqi factions, given that they launch repeated attacks against targets inside Israel, which has acknowledged the deaths and injuries resulting from those operations, indicating the impact of those attacks inside Israel.
Tel Aviv announced that it had struck several military sites inside Iran on Saturday morning in response to Tehran’s attacks earlier this month, in an escalatory move that threatens to dramatically deteriorate matters.
The official Iranian news agency reported in a statement that two soldiers were martyred during the Israeli air strikes on Iran, and it stated that “the Iranian army sacrificed two of its fighters while confronting the missiles launched by the criminal Zionist regime, in defense of Iran’s security and to protect its people and interests,” while Tehran vowed a proportionate response to the Israeli attacks on it, according to what was reported by a semi-official Iranian news agency.
Regarding whether Israel had used Iraqi airspace to launch strikes on Iran according to the Iranian narrative, the Iraqi government condemned the Israeli attack, but did not issue an official statement denying or confirming this narrative. However, an Iraqi government advisor denied in a televised statement that Israel was using Iraqi airspace, rejecting what the Iranian mission to the United Nations announced on the matter. Hussein Allawi, advisor to the Iraqi prime minister, stressed that “Iraq does not deal with Israel, but has been in a state of hostility with it since 1948, and cannot allow its airspace to be used to strike Iran.” He also pointed out that “the Iraqi government condemned the Israeli bombing of Iran in the strongest terms,” stressing that his country “is using the diplomatic path to resolve the crisis in the region.”
Despite the lack of specification on the nature of the Iranian response, and whether it will be direct or through armed factions affiliated with it, it shows the extent of the tension in the Middle East, especially Gaza and Lebanon, while some opinions tend towards the possibility of finding a settlement between the conflicting parties that would remove the scourge of conflict from the region.
For his part, Issam Al-Fayli, a professor of political science at Al-Mustansiriya University, points out that the escalation of the Iraqi factions’ operations against Israel depends on what is happening in Lebanon and Gaza, while he ruled out that any Israeli strike would be limited. Al-Fayli said, “If negotiations take place between Israel, the Lebanese, and Gaza and the results are positive, the Iraqi armed factions will suspend their strikes on Israel, but any Israeli response will take on other dimensions, and the next strike will be large and not limited.”
Al-Fayli explained that the increase in the pace of the Iraqi factions’ strikes on Israel depends on the Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, as well as targeting Gaza, meaning that the factions present in Iraq move when there is an intensity of Israeli strikes in the southern suburb and Gaza.
Regarding the capabilities of Iraqi air defenses to confront Israel, especially after Iran confirmed that the Israeli attacks came through Iraqi airspace, Al-Fayli explained that “Iraqi airspace is penetrated and neighboring countries send their missiles through Iraqi airspace, and what Israel did in targeting Iran is rejected by the Iraqi government, as it rejects any practices taking place on its land and in its skies against neighboring countries.”
Al-Fayli asked, “Is Iraqi airspace under Iraqi sovereignty? Cyber ​​and technical development and stealth aircraft are all things that allow for easy penetration of Iraqi airspace to strike neighboring countries. There are even countries neighboring Iraq that possess advanced systems that cannot reveal the nature of the strike.” He asked, “Why did Iran not launch the S-200 and S-300 systems that it possesses to repel the attacks?”
Amid questions about the route taken by the Israeli drones, the Iranian side confirmed that the Israeli attack took Iraqi airspace. The Iranian mission to the United Nations said last Saturday that Israeli warplanes attacked from Iraqi airspace and blamed the United States for what it described as “collusion.”
The Iranian mission added in a post on “X” that “Iraqi airspace is under the occupation, command and control of the US military, and the result is US complicity in this crime,” while the Iraqi government did not comment on these statements.
In this regard, the director of the Iraq Center for Security and Strategic Studies, Moataz Mohi Abdul Hamid, confirmed that Iraq does not have an advanced air defense system that can shoot down missiles and drones that penetrate its airspace, adding that “Iraq does not have an advanced air defense system that can defend its airspace, as is the case in many countries,” and given its capabilities, it cannot shoot down drones or missiles or limit their access to Iran.
Iraq has a contract to purchase an advanced air defense system from South Korea, but putting it into service requires time after training Iraqi personnel, according to Abdul Hamid, who explained that such systems are less advanced than the rest of the systems in Iran and some neighboring countries, because the Iranian air defense system relies on an air defense system of Russian origin, and Jordan, Turkey and other surrounding countries have advanced American air defense systems, unlike Iraq, which does not have similar systems.[/size]
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