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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They'll comply, officially, but with a porous border and corruption among border guards, it will be, shall we say, an imperfect sanction.
Iran’s war with Yemen overthrew the gov’t of Yemen; that was aided by Syria’s Assad back when his authority extended beyond the walls of his compound. The Saudis and other Gulf States intervened to fight Iran’s terrorist proxies. Iran’s presence and/or proxies in Yemen, Eritrea, and Djibouti are there to threaten the shipping lanes, a stretegem in their ongoing war against the West.
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