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EXCLUSIVE: Mass Iran spy leaks ‘accurate’, reveals Iraq official
The New Arab

An Iraqi official has exclusively confirmed to The New Arab that a report on findings from hundreds of leaked Iranian intelligence cables, revealing its vast and aggressive influence over Iraqi politics and society, is accurate.

The report, published in The Intercept, reveals the extent to which Iran has used spies, bribes and infiltrators in order to hold sway over the political direction of its neighbour, despite almost all of the Iraqi politicians and officials named in the cables have denied the findings.

Speaking on the phone to The New Arab’s Arabic-language service, an unnamed senior Baghdad official said the findings were "accurate and well-known in the political sphere" in Iraq.

Read more at: https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/news/2019/11/18/exclusive-mass-iran-spy-leaks-accurate-reveals-iraq-official

Wasn't there another "Intercept" story posted these past two days? Intercept has got to be left-leaning I'd think but if they get valid info, it's still noteworthy.  Did that journalist Glen Greenwald originate the Intercept? Maybe.

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Yes, the Intercept is on it:

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While U.S.-Led Forces Dropped Bombs, Iran Waged Its Own Covert Campaign Against the Islamic State
Murtaza Hussainmurtaza.hussain@​theintercept.com@mazmhussain

In the summer of 2014, with a campaign of shocking violence, the Islamic State established itself as the most fearsome terrorist organization in the Middle East.

In early June, the extremist group stunned the world by taking control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, home to more than 1.2 million people. Days later, ISIS fighters broadcast scenes from a gruesome massacre of more than 1,500 Iraqi army cadets at a former U.S. military base near Tikrit. By the end of the month, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had declared himself head of a new proto-state, the “caliphate,” as his fighters continued their genocidal rampage across northern Iraq, killing and enslaving members of the Yazidi minority and seizing Western hostages, among them an American journalist named James Foley.

As the international community groped for a response, ISIS fighters reached the borders of Iraqi Kurdistan, within striking distance of the glass high-rises of the bustling Kurdish capital, Erbil. It was there, from a dusty, remote Kurdish military base nicknamed “Black Tiger” outside the town of Makhmour, that ISIS was finally confronted by Kurdish Peshmerga in a battle that began to turn the tide against the extremists.

See more at: https://theintercept.com/2019/11/18/iran-isis-iraq-kurds/

Home page: https://theintercept.com/

We will have to see where this "scoop" leads. There appears to be much more than just the above.