Oil Crisis Forces Iraq To Ask Washington For Help

Former senior intelligence operative and now Iraq’s Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, spent last week in Washington trying to maintain his exceptionally dangerous balancing act between Iran and the U.S. On the one hand, Iraq has a multi-layered relationship with Middle East powerhouse, Iran, enforced by Tehran through its ongoing on-the-ground presence of political, economic, and military proxies. On the other hand, Iraq has a shorter but nonetheless highly eventful history with the world’s number one superpower, the U.S., which demands…