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    Improving the relationship between Iraq and Iran is not cause for concern

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    Improving the relationship between Iraq and Iran is not cause for concern Empty Improving the relationship between Iraq and Iran is not cause for concern

    Post by Rocky Mon 18 Mar 2019, 4:04 am


    [size=36]Improving the relationship between Iraq and Iran is not cause for concern[/size]
    [size=36]Sunday 17 March 2019 29[/size]
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    Translation: Anis Saffar

     
     
    Last week Iranian President Hassan Rowhani paid a visit to Iraq. The visit was friendly and took quite a while and resulted in the conclusion of several bilateral agreements in the fields of trade and transport. Such an event would have to affect the Trump administration with a burning scale, as well as others who believe that the only viable way to deal with Iran is to try to isolate and damage it.

    The factors of history and geography between the two countries are pushing Iraq and Iran today to seek closer ties between them. This is a logical step that the two countries have not had to take, so Americans do not need to feel such a sting.

    Iraq and Iran also share a border of more than 1400 kilometers. Often, the two countries also share problems along these borders, such as the problem of the restive Kurdish minority and the old border dispute on the Shatt al-Arab corridor. For example, Iran has provided [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] and [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to the insurgency by the Iraqi Kurds as a means of putting pressure on Baghdad, but has reverted to it as part of an agreement under which Iraq has made concessions on the border along the Shatt al-Arab.
    The experience that deeply affected both countries was the devastating war between Iraq and Iran during the years 1980 to 1988 that Saddam Hussein launched against Iran. That war has caused hundreds of thousands of casualties. The lesson that the Iranian leaders have come out of is that there should be a regime in Baghdad that is friendly to Iran that does not repeat what Saddam did. As well as Iraq, which has suffered the scourge of that costly war, it has come out of that conflict with similar lessons: the need to establish stable relations with its eastern neighbor.
    Hence the contradiction between Trump's approach, which is based on dragging the whole world to participate in the campaign to renounce and punish Iran, and these fixed geographical and historical facts. Iraqis, for all their political leanings, see the United States' efforts to coerce Iraq into joining the pressure campaign as a poor attempt to export its pathological obsession with Iraq's interests, which is why they resent it. This resentment was demonstrated last month after Trump said in an interview that he wanted to keep a US military base in Iraq because, he said, "he wants to keep Iran under consideration because it is a real problem." Then Iraqi President Barham Salih replied, speaking to his countrymen, saying, "Do not weigh Iraq on your own, because we are the ones who live here." Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said: Iraq to become a springboard for harming any other country. "
    Except for the security reasons, which make Iraq and Iran are keen together to establish relations between them and avoid causing problems to each other, there are economic reasons because both Iraq and Iran need to trade between them. Iraq, in particular, depends on its imports of natural gas and electricity from Iran to meet its energy needs. Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi described how the Iraqis suffered from the economic embargo imposed by the United States during Saddam Hussein's rule. "Iraq will not be part of the regime, Sanctions against Iran or any other people. "
    There are still other disagreements between Iraq and Iran, but the Iraqis know and remember that Iran's most important bid for them in recent years has been to help them liberate large parts of their western country under the influence of the so-called "Islamic state" or " Iran was the most important source of external aid in defeating the organization (an aid that did not come conditional on negotiations to maintain military bases on Iraqi soil under the pretext of "monitoring" Iran's opponents and opponents). Perhaps the sense of the value of this aid was among the reasons that made the spiritual impact Which he received in his visit surrounded by honor and Fawh, and part of this success, full of meetings with officials and businessmen, and the elders of Iraqi clans and other series. In contrast, President Trump's quick visit to Iraq last December was quick, far from the limelight, and was no more than landing at night at a US military base without meeting any Iraqi leader.
    One of the most important and major consequences of the regime-change war waged by a former US administration in Iraq 16 years ago was the intensification of Iranian influence in Iraq to a large extent. Today, there is a new American administration that is different from that, a management that seems determined to change another regime in the region with the same indifference, perhaps misunderstanding, of the region, its nature and the consequences of that change. The war makers of 2003 did not necessarily intend to strengthen Iranian influence in Iraq, so the rise of this power should be seen as another failure of that war. But now that this influence has become a reality, America can no longer be roared by it, or not before answering the question: "What will Iran gain from its growing influence?" The most important goal Iran has sought to achieve in Iraq is the defeat of " ", A goal agreed upon by the United States.
    It is still in the interest of the United States for a post-Saddam Iraq to remain a stable, prosperous and peaceful country, so it would not be in its interest to pressure him to take part in the economic war that would damage Iraq itself. 
    Nor is it in the interest of the United States to push Iraqis to violate their constitution, a constitution they put in place by encouraging and nurturing the United States after the overthrow of Saddam. Some of the reason for this was to prevent the country from sliding back into regional conflicts and conflicts as it did during the era of the former Iraqi dictator. One of the most important "fundamental principles" in this Constitution is Article 8 which says: 
    "Iraq will remain in compliance with the principles of good neighborliness and adhere to the principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries, seeking to resolve differences by peaceful means and establish relations on the basis of mutual mutual interests respectful of its international obligations."
    These are all good principles. 
    Paul Beller / on the website "Lob Blog" journalist 


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