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    The Iran Affair
    Washington should get its priorities straight. It has to choose between isolating Tehran and engaging with it. Either way Iraq’s course will be affected.
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    Necessity is the mother of cooperation. Nothing drives necessity like reality. The reality is that Iraq is in a deep abysmal mess of hydra-headed insurgency and sectarian violence. Once Saddam’s tight fortress, it has turned into a loose boot camp for multinational insurgents. Hell is on the loose in Iraq. America desperately needs some help to fix the problem. And no help would be more instrumental than that of Iran—America’s current enemy no.1.

    Iranians have contributed to the mess in a bid to frustrate and wear down America. In addition to Iran, there are a lot of countries who want to see America fail in Iraq. Iran in particular is interested in using this opening to neutralize America’s offensive on Iran’s nuclear program.

    Until recently America had avoided soliciting Iranian help. Zalmai Khalizad, American ambassador to Iraq sent a letter to the Iranian regime in January—proposing talks. The Iranians rejected the offer the first time. Khalizad repeated his proposal and his request was accentuated by the Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, who spent years in self-imposed exile in Iran when Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq. Hakim's party other members of the Shiite coalition that dominate Iraq's government are closely allied with Iran. Many Shiites have seen Iran’s positive response as a diplomatic victory.
    Back-door channel discussions were reportedly under-way with Iran on resuming direct talks about Iraq that broke off shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

    Tehran’s primary interest is finding a way to escape the American heat on the nuclear issue while exploring the possibility of using talks on Iraq as a channel to broader framework of diplomatic negotiations with Washington.

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