Leveraging Iran's Defeat to Strengthen US-Iraq Security Relations
Leveraging Iran's Defeat to Strengthen U.S.-Iraq Security Relations
Tehran's Iraqi proxies mostly sat out the twelve-day war, but this pragmatic restraint will not forestall growing U.S.-Iran competition over Iraq's airspace, economic partnerships, and other sectors.
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