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Trump's hawks are escalating: Liberate Iraq from Iran..
US pressure is mounting on Iraq to reduce Iranian influence in the country, as evidenced by prominent statements made by Republican US Congressman Joe Wilson, who wrote on his official account on the X platform: “Free Iraq from Iran.”
While this call reflects the hardline policy adopted by the Republicans, especially with their return to the forefront of the American political scene, these statements come amid ongoing escalation between the United States and Iran, making Iraq a focus of regional and international competition.
In this context, US-based political affairs researcher Nizar Haidar commented on these developments, explaining that Republicans view Iraq as a strategic prize that Washington seeks to regain.
Haidar said in a special interview with Baghdad Today: "The Republicans who are returning forcefully to the White House consider Iraq their prize that the Democrats squandered to the point that they almost lost it to Iranian influence. Therefore, they are determined to return it to the house of obedience, if I may say so, by reducing the influence of the eastern neighbor to its lowest levels."
Haidar added: "Members of Congress, specifically the representatives working with President Trump to achieve his vision of what he called putting an end to the chaos of weapons in the Middle East, which he meant, among other things, helping the Iraqi government to confine weapons to the state. This is something that Al-Sudani responded to, supported by all political forces and leaders, including the forces of the Coordination Framework."
He pointed out that: “The purpose of all this is to keep Iraq away from the sparks of the expected war between Tehran and Washington, by severing the organic link between Baghdad and Tehran, on the security and military levels or on the level of the dollar, oil, energy and other things. It is certainly not a military war in the classical sense, but rather a war of oil, money and the economy, in addition to the war of espionage and artificial intelligence, as we have seen in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and now in Yemen.”
Haidar continued: “The dangerous thing is that some members of Congress are seeking to mix the cards in order to increase pressure and escalate the psychological war against the political forces and leaders, specifically the Coordination Framework, by merging the armed factions and their leaders. There is no disagreement that they actually pose a threat to Iraq and may push it to engage in any potential escalation witnessed by the region, between forces and leaders who have been involved since the beginning of the change in the political process, and were part of the invasion project and the political project established by the civil governor Paul Bremer with all its details.”
He explained, saying: “This confusion complicates the expected solutions, because we know very well that multiple titles, constitutional and unconstitutional, have overlapped with the state in Iraq. Therefore, it will be very difficult to disentangle the titles and separate the state institutions from others if the cards are mixed up.”
Wilson’s statements and Haider’s comments reflect the current US administration’;s efforts to restore Iraq to its sphere of influence, as part of a broader strategy to restrict arms to the Iraqi state and disengage from Iran. But the challenges facing this policy lie in the complexity of the internal political scene in Iraq, as well as regional and international interventions.
With international pressure mounting, Iraq finds itself at a crossroads in its attempt to strike a balance between regional and international powers. The most important question remains: Will the Iraqi government be able to strengthen its national sovereignty, or will it be affected by the conflicts surrounding it?
Prepared by: Political Affairs Department, Baghdad Today |
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