Shifaa Alsairafi Research Assistant, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). Iraq Torn Between Iran and Saudi Arabia Clément Therme , Shifaa Alsairafi · July 2019 Harassed by the United States to respect the embargo against Iran, Iraq is an essential pawn in the Iranian-Saudi competition for regional leadership. But beeing in a process of reconstruction, it can in no way put an end to its cooperation with the Islamic Republic and has everything to gain (…)
