Most flagrantly, it includes the direct arming and funding of a prominent militia of Iraqi Christians. “We had ISIS, and now we are struggling with this increasing Iranian rule, the changing demographics,” lamented Dr. Salem Hana, a 33-year-old Iraqi Christian dentist. “Iran is directly funding a Christian militia so it can extend its authority in the Nineveh Plains,” claimed Ano Jawhar Abdoka, an Erbil-based Christian activist and international relations analyst. And it’s not just Iraqi Christians who are concerned about Iran’s generosity to the Christian militia. That influence inside the Nineveh Plains, many Christians on the ground lamented, is becoming more blatant with each passing day.

Source: Fox News December 24, 2017 20:15 UTC