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    Britain uses soft power in Iraq and Iran is concerned, a British report says Friday, March 9th,

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    Britain uses soft power in Iraq and Iran is concerned, a British report says Friday, March 9th, Empty Britain uses soft power in Iraq and Iran is concerned, a British report says Friday, March 9th,

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    Britain uses soft power in Iraq and Iran is concerned, a British report says

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    The British newspaper The Economist published a report on Saudi-Iraqi relations and Saudi investments in Mesopotamia and its impact on Baghdad's relations with the eastern neighbor of Tehran. 

    "The regional conflict between Saudi Arabia and Iran has entered a new phase. Riyadh has begun to use its soft power in Iraq, " the magazine said in a report published Thursday 

    According to the British Economist, as in previous days, the Saudis returned to southern Iraq, where the kingdom is finalizing its consulate in Basra . 

    Before Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, Gulf Arabs were celebrating on the banks of the Shatt al-Arab River in southern Iraq, noting that many of them owned villas and farms around Basra and married Iraqi women. After three decades of estrangement they seem to have decided Back. 

    The Economist pointed out that dozens of Saudi poets traveled last month to the city of Basra to attend a literary festival, pointing out that the Saudi-Iraqi Airways has also returned to work again, where the number of trips to 140 per month. 

    Saudi companies have started opening offices in Baghdad, including SABIC, the petrochemical giant.
    The magazine reported by Kuwait conference for the reconstruction of Iraq over the past month, where he pledged to Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al - Jubeir, providing about one billion dollars to Baghdad loans along with $ 500 million for the reconstruction of Iraq after the war against al - phase "Daesh". 

    According to the Economist, this comes in the context of pushing the US administration to the Gulf States to escalate against Iran, but it was not easy for Saudi Arabia and Iraq, according to the magazine, which recalled the threats of Saddam Hussein to invade Saudi Arabia, and noted the current Iraqi government allowed "Iranian- To establish a camp near the Saudi border, at a time when Saudi Arabia is accused of "providing funding for Sunni jihadists in Iraq," according to the report of the magazine.

    According to the magazine, the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, began to move the Kingdom away from the sectarian logic, by 2015, was central to the restoration of diplomatic relations that resulted in the reopening of the border between Iraq and Saudi Arabia last year. 
    The Saudi Crown Prince also began transferring funds from Sunni politicians to more influential Shi'ites. The leader of the Sadrist movement, Moqtada al-Sadr, and Mohammed Qasim al-Araji, the leader of the Sadrist movement, received the report. 

    The report pointed out the disparity in support for Iraq by Saudi Arabia and Iran, where the latter did not pledge anything at the recent reconstruction conference in Kuwait. 

    "After they failed to fight, the Saudis now want to excel in spending," an Iraqi official told the Economist happily.

    According to the newspaper, in a predominantly Shi'a Muslim country, Iran saw its intervention as sectarianism and Shiite sedition, while Saudi Arabia wanted to recapture it by reviving Iraq's Arab identity, making Iraqis face Persian Iran, and Arab nationalism was largely marginalized in Iraq after In 2003, the Baath Party, which ruled the country previously, was banned. 

    The biggest focus on the city of Basra, Iraq's richest province, and the launch of Saudis in mega-projects in the city could contribute to their rivalry or beat the Iranians, the magazine said, noting that Iraqi officials hoped that the Saudis would fund road projects and reuse oil pipelines, Until 1990, Iraqi oil reached the Red Sea.

    The magazine continues its report by saying that the south of Iraq is largely directed towards Iran so far, noting that the streets bear names such as Ayatollah Khomeini, commander of the Iranian revolution. But what Saudi Arabia began to do began to notice a nervousness in Tehran. Riyadh calls for the memory of Iraqi Arabs and Shiites, too, eight years of war between the two Iraqi states in the 1980s. Iranian businessmen fear the new competition they will have to face. 

    To get closer to Iraq, Iran opened a free trade area near the border area with Basra, according to the magazine, which lifted restrictions on visas for Iraqis to facilitate shopping in the border city of Khuzestan.

    The Economist pointed out that Iraqi imports from Iran have increased hundreds of times from exports to the Islamic Republic, pointing out that the Iraqi factions backed by Iran in stigmatize the rapprochement between Baghdad and Riyadh, where the politicians of these factions to about 3 thousand Saudis joined Da'ash. One of the men of the armed factions in Basra asked: "How do we welcome our killers?" For their part, clerics in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf have been hesitant about Saudi Arabia's request to set up a consulate in the holy Shiite city. 

    In general, Economist says the Saudi move has proved popular. With all the sectarian ties they have with Iranian Shiites, many residents of Basra fought in the front lines during the brutal war against Iran. Many believe that Iranian intervention in their country is a form of colonialism.

    The Gulf magazine concludes that other Gulf states view Iraq as a black hole of corruption, but the young prince, Mohammed bin Salman, may also lack the strategic patience to see what his initiative will lead to. But if the Saudis hope for a quick victory, the first football match in Iraq between the national team and Saudi Arabia will be engraved for a long time. Saudi players ran through the stadium in Basra, but eventually lost four to a goal.



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