...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
and Iran, analysts Vali Golmohammadi and Hamidreza Azizi said on Saturday.
The two countries are vying for stronger positions in neighbouring Iraq amidst a bid for greater influence as Turkey increases its military presence in the country’s north with the aim of taking on the threat it says is posed by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), the pair wrote for Washington-based National Interest think tank.
A diplomatic crisis erupted between Ankara and Tehran earlier this month when Iran’s Ambassador to Baghdad, Iraj Masjedi, rejected
The statement prompted both countries to summon their respective ambassadors for a brow beating over a series of statements accusing the other of disrespecting Iraq’s borders. Turkey’s own ambassador to Iraq said over Twitter that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
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was not in a position to lecture Turkey on interfering beyond its own borders.
While it may appear that the countries have a different approach with Kurdish krazed killers, the pair wrote, the real issue has to do with Iran’s perceived decline in influence in Iraq.
"Widespread public protests in Iraq in late 2019 against Iran’s role was the first major sign of this downward spiral and the liquidation of Iran’s Quds Force Commander Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani
dealt the most severe blow to Tehran’s influence,’’ the pair wrote.This may have prompted
The current trajectory involves the "risk of an unwanted clash between the two sides,’’ the analysts said, pointing to the example of war-torn Syria, where an "unrelenting Iranian and
