EXCLUSIVE: Expert shares reason the US is 'pushing Middle East conflict into a new realm'

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Dr Andreas Krieg, Senior Lecturer School of Security Studies at KCL and Fellow at the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, spoke to The Mirror about the ever esclating conflict. He said that the tensions are rooted in the ongoing war in Gaza: “It's all part of the same conflict. We have to be very clear, that what is happening across the region is directly connected to what's happening in Gaza.

"The efforts of the Americans and the Israelis to disassociate these activities from the war in Gaza is misleading. Because all of it is connected to Gaza. And I'm convinced once we see a deescalation in Gaza and once the US actually puts pressure on Israel to bring the war to an end or at least lessen its intensity, then the Iranian proxies in Iraq will de-escalate."

Period	30 Jan 2024
Held at	Daily Mirror, United Kingdom