[size=32]Will Iraq succeed in reaching a settlement between "Iran and America"... and how will it benefit from this reconciliation?![/size]
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Iraq is making continuous efforts to settle a reconciliation between America and Iran, and to re-establish the nuclear agreement. This attempt comes among other attempts by Iraq to improve Iran's relations with a number of countries in the region, led by Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, according to a report from the "Raise Your Voice" website.
Why does Iraq do that? How can these reconciliations, if they take place, benefit Baghdad?
A few days ago, Fouad Hussein, the Iraqi Foreign Minister, announced that his country is playing an active role in resuming nuclear talks between the United States and Iran, which aims to revive the nuclear agreement that Washington drew from in 2018, during the era. of former US President Donald Trump.
This role was welcomed by the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and announced through its spokesperson that it welcomed Iraq's efforts in this field, and that it was pleased to harness Baghdad's relations with the United States to resume work in activating the nuclear agreement between the two countries.
In his interview with an international website, Hussein said: "It is no secret that I am in contact with Iranian and American officials. The two sides trust us, and this is a good thing," noting that Iraq's interest requires reducing tension between Washington. and Tehran.
He added, "I will continue these contacts. The United States is an important ally, and Iran is an important neighbor with whom we share many common interests. I hope that the two sides will start talking to each other again."
Over the past two years, Baghdad has played the role of mediator between Saudi Arabia and Iran, the two central countries in the region. Since 2021, the two sides have started a series of talks in Baghdad to discuss ways to resolve the differences between them, but no tangible progress has been achieved so far.
This conciliatory diplomacy culminated in the holding of the Baghdad Conference, in August 2021, which brought together the leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, the Emirates and Kuwait, in the presence of the foreign ministers of Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The conference stressed the need to focus on facing common challenges, and the high official representation reflected the agreement of all parties to the return of Iraq as an active member in the region, which allows it to play the role of an honest mediator between all the conflicting poles.
For his part, Ihsan al-Shammari, head of the Center for Political Thinking, said that although Iraq does not possess many tools that qualify it to play the role of mediator successfully, Baghdad's philosophy for the success of its efforts is based on following a The policy of neutrality, including exploiting the fact that its lands are a space for collision between the forces of the region, which makes it ineligible to be an arena for reconciliation and reunification negotiations as well.
For his part, Mehran Kamrava, a professor of Iranian studies at Georgetown University Qatar, explains, during his interview with the press, that there are different types of international mediation, starting with setting an agenda for the talks and putting pressure on the parties to make concessions, or simply providing a channel of communication between the two conflicting parties, exchanging each other. messages across. "Iraq is doing the latter kind, and this does not require a lot of strength and resources," he added.
Muhannad al-Janabi, a political science professor at Cihan University - Erbil, considered, during his interview with an international website, that the Iraqi initiative comes at a time when the Iraqi monetary system complied with international banking rules, which negatively affected Iran and Iran's access to Iraqi public money.
Al-Janabi believes that Iran may have encouraged Baghdad to play this role in order to relieve pressure on it.
He continues that such steps are not only beneficial to both sides of the reconciliation equation, but also to all parties in the region, the first of which is Iraq.
"When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers," Kamrava said. He stressed that the United States and Iran are deeply involved in Iraqi politics, so it is in Iraq's interest to reconcile and stop competing on regional issues.
This is the same as what the Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia'a al-Sudani, himself stated at the beginning of this year, when he stressed that any tension between America and Iran would negatively affect Iraq.
Moreover, Baghdad seeks to polish its image and put itself in the center of events again after years of focusing on its internal problems.
Elizabeth Shakman, a political researcher specializing in Middle East issues, said that Baghdad does not want to see itself neglected or marginalized in the region any more, so it is trying to adopt one political initiative after another that will bring it back to the fore.
This was also confirmed by Renard Mansour, a political analyst specializing in Iraqi affairs, when he said that Baghdad to transform it from a mere political arena for the powers of the region into a prominent power and a recognized mediator among the important countries in the Middle East.
Kamran Balani, a political researcher at the Middle East Institute, explains that since the victory over ISIS in 2017, and the recovery of Mosul and then Kirkuk, which was under Kurdish control, calls have grown within Iraq to play a greater role in international politics . These calls reached their climax during the reign of Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, President of the former ministers.
According to analysts, a greater regional role for Iraq may limit the great competition between the United States and Iran, and it will also be beneficial to the internal situation as well and will increase Iraq's stability and consolidate its sovereignty.
According to Shakman, calming the situation inside Iran will reflect positively on the Iraqi border areas, especially the northern Kurdish regions.
A history of mediation
Since time immemorial, Iraq has enjoyed a great position in the region thanks to its strong relations with all its neighbors, which made it an ideal mediator in the region's crises.
In 1936, the "Great Revolution" broke out in Palestine, in which the Arabs demanded independence from the British and a limitation of Jewish immigration to the country. The Palestinians refused to pay taxes to the Mandate government, and all those with economic interests went on strike for 175 days.
Abdul-Jabbar al-Awda says in his thesis "The Political and Military Struggle of the Arabs of Jerusalem," that the mediation of Iraq, led by Nuri al-Saeed, between the "Palestinian revolutionaries" and the British ended that strike. On October 12, 1936, the Arab Committee published a statement calling on the Palestinians to calm down "in implementation of the noble orders, which have no goal other than the interest of the Arabs."
In the same year, Turkey asked Iraq to mediate with Syria to discuss a solution to the issue of the Iskenderun District, whose sovereignty the two countries disputed for a period of time. Nuri Al-Saeed made efforts to hold talks between the two parties, but they ultimately failed, according to Amira Al-Obeidi's book "Syrian-Turkish Relations".
Also, following the termination of the British mandate over Palestine, in 1948, Jordan announced the annexation of the West Bank to its territory. According to the book "The Hashemite Documents", the Arab League rejected this decision, as it contradicts a previous decision that prevents Arab countries from annexing Palestine to it.
Jordan was threatened with expulsion from the university, but Iraq, which was a Hashemite kingdom at the time, mediated and ended with reversing the decision to expel from the Arab organization, and the council adopted a resolution in which it expressed its hope that Jordan would consider "Arab Palestine a sacred trust" on its neck.
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