Saddam Hussein
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But who says Iraqs and Irans interests cant be aligned? ATM. Both countries serve each others interests. I personally wouldn't care if Iraqi Sadr was elected next Supreme Leader. Some people tend to care too much about race. I don't. Iran is not tryin to annex your country or steal your money.
If you were Iran, would you sit back and watch the country you know wants to destroy you grow its influence in your backyard and use it in the future to destroy you? It's only natural Iran acted and did whatever it could to keep influence over Iraq and make sure Iraq remains an ally. If you were able to kick out USA. We would have no reason to be in Iraq. We could be good neighbors and allies that would look after each others interest.
It's not about what can or can be, that's a road in which we can write major paragraphs without end.
Iraq's current situation, the situation since 2003, there is nothing positive about it and Iran's influence in Baghdad has been negative in every way. Whenever I bring this up, the response is 'but PMU'. PMU is not even a good thing for us to start with.
If the US were to leave Iraq, Iran would get an even stronger grip on Iraq on its military and political blocs. They wouldn't leave. Aligned interests can only happen when two states are equal and one views the other as a partner rather than a playground to spawn proxies in, Iran does not view Iraq its equal. Khazali, Amiri etc. they have all been glamorized, in reality do you think our country has no one better than those figures, whom fought against their own state.
All foreign influence is negative, Turkey tried it in Mosul a few years back as well. Iraq has been a shithole ever since 2003, the government did nothing good. The only 'improvement' of today compared to the 90's is due to the fact that UN sanctions were lifted allowing the gov to sell oil. Not that they did any good with the oil but steal it, and i'm talking Shi'a Islamist groups as they're ruling Iraq.