If history is any guide, the regime in Iran will not go punch for punch with the United States. 
Joe Biden sought out Russian president Vladimir Putin before the 2003 invasion of Iraq to propose a deal in which Russia would be given the oil profits from the war if they entered alongside the United States. 
Former Obama White House adviser David Axelrod said in a tweet Thursday that Joe Biden was distorting his own record to a damaging degree. 
Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden again misrepresented his previous stance on the Iraq war, claiming that he "came out against the war" the "moment it started" despite defending his vote to authorize force in Iraq months after the war began. 
The greatest danger is that the Israeli-Iranian conflict spills into Lebanon, triggering another war between Israel and Hezbollah. 
The Washington Post awarded Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden two Pinnochios for his claim that he got 150,000 troops out of Iraq during his time as vice president. 
A Canadian citizen and Iraqi national was sentenced to 26 years in prison for conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq. He played a role in the death of five American servicemen. 
Iran's paramilitary fighting force has been running a multi-million-dollar illicit weapons smuggling program in Iraq, according to new disclosures by the Trump administration, which issued a bevy of sanctions on Wednesday aimed at disrupting the arms network. 
U.S. military officials confirmed late Sunday that there were "no U.S. or coalition casualties" as the result of a large explosion near the American embassy in Baghdad that some have already begun to speculate may have been carried out by Iran's terror proxy group, Hezbollah. 
Iran is increasingly prioritizing Iraq in its regional military strategy, using its Iraqi proxies more than ever to project Iranian power and to threaten the U.S. and its allies. 