Iraq is approaching the Arabs... and is maneuvering with Tehran and Washington after the "Gulf 25" s

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[size=52]Iraq is approaching the Arabs... and is maneuvering with Tehran and Washington after the "Gulf 25" station in Basra[/size]

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Shia al-Sudani announces the official opening of the (Prime Minister's Office)
Baghdad: Asharq Al-Awsat
It is true that the procedures for opening isolation between Iraq and its Arab surroundings began timidly years ago, especially since the government of Dr. The government of former Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi. Al-Kazemi, who succeeded in the foreign policy files of Iraq, including with the Gulf and Arab surroundings, paved the way for what happened after him in this regard, especially with the agreement of the Arab Gulf states to organize Iraq the “Gulf 25” (the 25th Arab Gulf Cup) football tournament in the city of Basra in the far south of Iraq. However, what happened when the championship was organized and the unprecedented atmosphere that accompanied it, especially in terms of the relationship between the Gulf and Iraqi audiences, was one of the most important factors in turning the page on the past completely, and starting a new page between the Iraqis and their Gulf Arab brothers.[/size]
[size=45]Naming the "Gulf 25" tournament in the name of the Arabian Gulf is something that provoked Iran to the point of summoning the Iraqi ambassador in Tehran, Naseer Abdul Hussein, and handing him a letter protesting the naming. It is well known that, unlike the capitals of the Arab region, Tehran has been calling it the "Persian Gulf". On the other hand, after all this success achieved at the tournament level, the Iraqi government tried as much as possible to avoid provoking Iran.[/size]
[size=45]However, whenever the relationship appears to be completely different between Arabs and Iraqis, Tehran escalates its protest in this regard, although it did not do so throughout the past twenty-four sessions. This matter was interpreted by Iraqi observers as a protest not so much against naming the "Gulf" as "Arab" but rather a protest against what appeared to be an unprecedented Iraqi-Gulf cohesion. And they saw that it practically means the failure of the "Iranian project" aimed at creating Iraqi-Arab isolation, and perpetuating it throughout twenty years of political and media pumping... which collapsed as soon as the Gulf public and media people began entering the outskirts of the city of Basra.
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Iraqis pass near a building on which giant flags of the Gulf states were raised in Basra last Thursday (AFP)[/size]
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