Analysis: US losing battle with Iran over Iraq

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More than two weeks after the Trump administration announced it would keep its current force of between 7,000 and 9,000 US soldiers in Iraq and dispatched Brett McGurk, the presidential envoy for the global coalition against ISIS to Baghdad in order to prevent an Iranian takeover of the country, it is becoming increasingly clear the US is losing Iraq.

On Thursday, pro-Iranian political factions finally reached an agreement about the forming of a new government, four months after May 12th's parliamentary elections.

The forming of the new Iraqi government ended Trump’s hope of securing a second term of his ally Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, whose Dawa Party or ‘Victory Coalition’ came third in the parliamentary elections.

Al-Abadi, a pragmatic politician who maintained good relations with both Iran and the US, was blamed for a severe humanitarian crisis in southern Iraq where Iran suddenly cut off electricity earlier this summer and aggravated a severe water shortage during which over 60,000 people were poisoned when they drank contaminated water.

As a result of the humanitarian crisis, thousands of Iraqis in Iraq’s largest southern city, Basra, took to the streets and torched the Iranian consulate but also cursed al-Abadi who visited the city earlier this week.

At least 15 people died in the violent demonstrations which spread to other parts of Iraq, including its capital of Baghdad.

The forming of the new pro-Iranian government came after Muqtada al-Sadr the controversial Shiite cleric who surprisingly won the May 12 election and Hadi al-Amiri, a Shiite extremist whose al-Fatah list maintains a close relationship with the Iranian Islamist regime, failed to register their own coalitions in the first session of the new Iraqi parliament.

The two Iraqi leaders then decided to resume negotiations and held several meetings in al-Sadr’s residence in the city of Najaf.

“We have reached preliminary understandings with Al-Sadr and are working to turn them into agreements under the umbrella of Marjiyaa (the highest Shiite clerics in Iraq),” Arab Newsquoted an al-Fatah official as saying. READ MORE