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How a U.S.-Iran nuclear deal could help save Iraq

By Ryan Crocker, William Luers and Thomas Pickering July 11

Ryan Crocker, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, is dean of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. William Luers, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela and Czechoslovakia, is director of the Iran Project. Thomas Pickering was U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs from 1997 to 2000 and ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.

An Arab proverb advises, “A problem is solved when it gets tougher.”