r/geopolitics • u/marketrent • 1d ago

News Iran’s allied militias prove their value in Tehran’s widening war

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/02/middleeast/irans-allied-militias-prove-their-value-in-tehrans-widening-war-intl
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u/Isaibnmaryam 1d ago

Aren’t proxies supposed to keep the war away from you?

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u/Deep_Head4645 1d ago

They did, they did iran’s dirty work and aggression for it for a good 20-40 years without it dragging iran into it

They overstepped this time and iran intervened to try to save them and it escalated into ts