lodya worried she was next. >> (speaking arabic): >> navai: lodya told me she had been threatened by militias before, after she attended a women's day event at the u.s. consulate with her best friend, riham yacoub. >> (speaking arabic) >> navai: a tv channel owned by an iranian-backed militia accused them of collaborating with the u.s. consul general. >> (speaking arabic): >> (speaking arabic): >> navai: in august 2020, lodya was getting into a car to go to the funeral of one of her murdered friends. >> (speaking arabic): >> navai: lodya's friend abbas, who was driving, was shot in the back, but survived. two days later, it was riham's turn, ambushed while driving down one of basra's main streets. >> (speaking arabic): >> navai: i'd been tracking the rising power of the shia militias and their ties to iran for years. in 2016, i reported on their instrumental role in the fight to drive isis out of iraq. these shia militias were ordinary iraqis who had picked up arms to fight isis when government forces had crumbled. >> (speaking arabic): >> navai: they're pointing over there, and they