Iraq is navigating a precarious geopolitical landscape as the conflict between the United States and Iran intensifies, threatening the nation’s security, its primary revenue source, and its fragile political stability.

High-ranking U.S. officials have revealed a staggering increase in hostilities, with American facilities in Iraq enduring over 600 attacks involving missiles and drones since the outbreak of the Iran-U.S. war.

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The targets of these sustained assaults include the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the U.S. Diplomatic Support Center, and the U.S. Consulate in Erbil. Washington has heightened its rhetoric, demanding “actions, not words” from the Iraqi leadership. A senior State Department official emphasized that the line between the Iraqi state and pro-Iranian militias has become dangerously blurred.

The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has issued a Level 4 “Do Not Travel” advisory, the highest possible warning, urging all American citizens to leave Iraq immediately. The embassy cited ongoing threats from “terrorist militias” allied with Iran, which continue to plan attacks throughout the country, including the Kurdistan region.

U.S. officials are pressing IraqiPrime Minister-designate Ali al-Zaidito take concrete steps to restore confidence, including expelling militias from state institutions, while severing all financial support from the national budget, and halting the payment of salaries to militia fighters.

USPresident Donald Trumphas voiced support for Zaidi, but said he wanted to see a new Iraqi government “free of terrorism.”

WhenPresident George W. Bushordered the attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, he had the goal of regime change. IraqiPresident Saddam Husseinwas a Sunni, governing a Shiite majority with an iron fist.

The political goal, was to place a hand-picked new government by America in Iraq. The experts at the U.S. State Department wanted a Shiite dominated government for Iraq, and they got it. Apparently, the big-minds at the State Department, sometimes called the “Deep State”, didn’t think far enough into the project to realize that Iran and Iraq both have a Shiite majority, and by instituting a Shiite government in Iraq, Iran would be stronger both militarily as well as politically.

Source: Global Research