United States, Iran Vie for Influence in Iraq By: Robert Dreyfuss | The Nation

United States, Iran Vie for Influence in Iraq

By: Robert Dreyfuss | The Nation

Fully seven months after the March 7 parliamentary election in Iraq, there's the first glimmer of a chance that an Iraqi government coalition might be within reach. Whether or not it happens, and what it looks like, has a lot to do with future American influence in Iraq. And it will be the result of an ugly, behind-the-scenes power struggle between the United States and Iran over which country will be the dominant power in Iraq.

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