Iran has begun supplying Shi’ite militias in Iraq with more advanced weaponry in preparation for possible renewed fighting with Israel, according to a report by Israel’s Kan Reshet Bet radio station on Tuesday.

The report, which cited Iraqi sources with knowledge of the matter, came just days after Hebrew media cited Israeli security officials as saying that Jerusalem was intensifying its preparations against a potential new Iranian-backed threat emerging from Iraq.

Sources in the Israel Defense Force Northern Command told Walla on Friday that Iraqi militias are believed to be preparing a combined ground and air assault.

Esmail Ghaani, head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, recently visited Iraq and met with senior militia leaders.

Iraqi officials cite

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