Iraq can now Wrest its Sovereignty from Iran
By Hamdi Malik for Foreign Affairs. Any opinions expressed are those of the author(s), and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News.
Mustafa al-Kadhimi (pictured), Iraq's new prime minister as of May 12, has already announced a bold intention.
In a short government manifesto he submitted to the Iraqi Parliament, Kadhimi emphasized his plans to "impose the state's prestige" by bringing armed groups under government control.
To observers of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, the manifesto's meaning is clear: the damage to the state's "prestige" has, after all, come mainly from pro-Iranian militant groups who answer to the commanders of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), rather than to Iraq's commander in chief.
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