Rumors that U.S. and Iranian officials have met in Baghdad symbolize the increasing entanglement of the old occupying power with Iraq’s neighbor. Tensions between the U.S. and Iraq’s government have heated up in recent weeks as Iraqi officials met in Tehran to bring up the subject of a never-ending U.S. occupation. There is a chance that U.S. officials met with Iranian counterparts or brushed shoulders as either passed in and out of the country. U.S. President Joe Biden is pushin