Who was Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, the Hashd deputy and Tehran's man in Iraq?
In this file photo, Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, a commander in the Popular Mobilisation Units, is seen listening to a question during an interview ahead of an operation aimed at re-taking the Daesh-held city of Fallujah, outside Fallujah, Iraq. May 29, 2016.
It came just days after Hashd supporters attacked the American embassy in Baghdad, provoking anger in Washington. "Muhandis was demonstrative of how Iran built its network of proxies in Iraq," said Phillip Smyth, a US-based researcher focused on Shia armed groups. In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq war, he was a leading commander in the Badr Corps, a unit of Iraqi fighters founded in Iran in opposition to Saddam.briefly served as a member of parliament in Iraq following the 2005 elections.Washington said he ran "weapons smuggling networks and participated in bombings of Western embassies and attempted assassinations in the region."
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