Posted on 08/07/2018 8:41:05 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Tuesday he would reluctantly comply with renewed US sanctions on neighbouring Iran, but recalled his country's 12 years under international embargo... Iraq is the second-largest importer of Iranian non-hydrocarbon products, buying some $6 billion (5 billion euros) worth of goods from its eastern neighbour in 2017. It also buys in Iranian-generated electricity in efforts to deal with chronic power cuts that have been a key factor sparking mass protests in recent weeks... Iranian private companies recently cut off power supplies to Iraq's oil-rich coastal province of Basra over outstanding payments... The sanctions are expected to weigh heavily on Iran's already struggling economy, which is suffering from high unemployment and runaway inflation. Iran's currency has lost nearly half its value since Trump announced the US would withdraw from the nuclear pact. Iraq suffered through more than 12 years of harsh international sanctions beginning in 1990 after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
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Clinton Quotes on Iraq
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1007910/posts
A dozen Iraq war myths that need to die
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Posted on 03/21/2018 1:51:44 PM PDT by nuconvert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3641462/posts
That puts Iran between Iraq and a hard place.
As a presidential candidate, Trump stated that I would grow weary of winning. He lied, as I have yet to tire of winning.
Shecky Greene lives. ;)
Same here, although I think he was being ironic. :^)
They'll be in especially bad shape if they have Iraqnophobia.
Yeah, I know. ;)
Thank you for these informative links.
I had not really considered Iraq seriously complying with the sanctions. That would be a real blow to Iran.
The last time sanctions were on Iran, the Iraqi Government was led by a pro-Iran coalition, and Iraq was dependent on Iran for military support in a life-or-death struggle against ISIS. Mosul was the biggest urban battle since Stalingrad in WWII.
Sanctions were hardly considered in practice between their economies, and the rest of the world (including Obama) gave Iraq a free pass on enforcement. They were almost an open corridor for circumventing sanctions, including substantial oil smuggling out of Iraq, or through Iraq to Turkey.
After recent elections, a new coalition rules Iraq, that is in competition with Iranian supported factions for power domestically, and they no longer need Iranian help with security.
Their economies are strongly integrated - Iraq buys electricity from Iran’s grid, and Iran get’s a lot of their fuel from Iraqi refineries. One of Iran’s biggest problems recently has been truckers striking, and fuel issues have been a major concern.
If Iraq is on board (and President Trump is much less likely to tolerate cheating than Obama was), then the same sanctions will hit Iran harder this time.
Follow the US and prosper. Choose the dark path and fail.
Freedom wins
Follow the US and prosper. Choose the dark path and fail.
Freedom wins
YES. Well put.
And Iraq is further distanced from Iran, and that’s more winning by POTUS.
Uruk like you're worried, but don't be.
My pleasure.
There's already been payment issues for the electricity; the biggest issue for Iraq is the Iranian occupation. Iran would try to start a civil war and overthrow the Iraqi gov't, but the possibility exists that the mullahs will need to recall all of its overseas thugs in order to settle their own budding insurrection. They've already shown they can survive with sanctions (and the cheating that always went along with it; but cheating is expensive, because the other party knows your situation).
If they comply happily or not doesn’t matter. What matters is that they comply.
I would appreciate information about Saudi Arabia’s war sifh Yemen and U.S. interests.
With* Yemen sorry typo. I would appreciate info about Saudi Arabia’s war with Yemen and U.S. interests.
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