Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr (L) and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi hold a press conference in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, May 20. Daily Sabah
Amir Toumaj, Long War Journal: Analysis: Tehran’s push to force US exit from Iraq
While Iranian-backed parties are moving to form a government in Baghdad that could force the US to exit the country, they face growing public anger in oil-rich Basra over governance failures.
Anti-government demonstrators in the port city have set ablaze the offices of Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian consulate. Tehran and its militias claimed that the US and regional allies, as part of a broader conspiracy to topple the Islamic Republic, took advantage of the protests to instigate the attacks. The US missions in Iraq were then targets of rocket attacks. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) also launched ballistic missiles against Iraq-based Kurdish insurgents. Washington condemned the launch and accused Tehran of ordering its Iraqi proxies to launch the attacks against the US facilities.
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WNU Editor: With the deadline for U.S. oil sanctions on Iran fast approaching, this push by Iran to force a U.S. exit out of Iraq will only intensify. But the problem for Iran and its supporters in Iraq is that as we have learned by the recent massive unrest in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, they are terrible at governance, and support for them is limited .... Every Iraqi Government Building In Basra — Including Iran’s Consulate — Have Been Torched In The Past 48 Hours (September 10, 2018).
Proper governance is easy.
ReplyDeleteThey must not want it bad enough. Instead they want their hand in the cookie jar.
"they are terrible at governance, and support for them is limited..." And do you really think that the US has done a better job in Iraq? The reality is that without the US invasion and occupation, there never would have been an ISIS. We have brought more instability and chaos to that part of the world in the last 15 years that it has seen in a long time, including the mess today that is Iraq.
ReplyDeleteIraq needs the USA and its friends fR more than the USA needs Iraq. Iraq has more options to be sovereign with the USA engaged, very few if its just Iran.
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