Link to the article:
Iraqi president seeks Iran's help
So I'm trying to wrap my head around the implications of Iraq receiving help from Iran to stabalize the violence in Iraq. I know it's a broad question, but what are the possible outcomes of this relationship? Is it definitively dangerous to us for Iran, whose ambitions have clearly been counter to our own, to help Iraq, who is growing more and more tired of our own inability to provide stability? Could we possibly accept Iran's help without fear of Tehran successfully using this a leverage to gain something we don't want them to get?
I assumed that one goal of the goverment we've been attempting to form in Iraq was to be one that would steer away from being a fundamentalist-driven organization (such as the one in Iran). But instead he have a formed a government that, after being in existence for just a few years, has turned to Tehran for help. That puts Iraq in bed with just such an organization, and seems directly counter to what we were aiming for. I think if we suggested 3 years ago that Baghdad would be getting (or needed) Iran's help, it would have been scoffed at. Yet here we are...
Then again, maybe this is the common cause that brings the U.S., Iraq, and Iran (plus Syria?) eye-to-eye.