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... resignation would not weaken the Iranian influence in Iraq. The years of work the Islamic Republic has put into the Shiite areas of Iraq, the Shiite militia’s loyalty to Tehran, comprehensive economic ties (
the volume of bilateral trade between Iran and Iraq reached $12 billion in 2013
) and the political tradition of appointing a Shiite Prime Minister (the President’s position in Iraq is reserved for the Kurds, while the one of the Speaker of Parliament – for the Sunnis) combine to guarantee ...
... trade with Iran,” said U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki
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. As a result, the parties were forced to officially refute the deal
[10]
, which failed to dispel Americans’ suspicions, and forced Washington to keep a close eye on Iranian-Iraqi relations.
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This rise in Iraqi oil production undermines Riyadh’s significant efforts to keep the oil price above $100 a barrel.
Another aspect of Saudi Arabia’s interests in destabilizing Iraq ...
... positions of his friends, and alienate all neutrals while he was gradually winning the war, and at a time when UN chemical inspectors were in Damascus? The sceptic observer cannot help but remember the false intelligence on which the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was founded; Saddam Hussein did not in fact possess weapons of mass destruction. The parallel is inescapable. In May, Carla Del Ponte, leading member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, asserted that there ...
