Fanar Haddad

One of the ear­ly vic­tims of the US es­ca­la­tion against Iran is Iraq’s un­prece­dent­ed protest move­ment.

Up­heaval in Iraq will con­tin­ue as long as the rul­ing oli­garchy makes no room for a po­lit­i­cal op­po­si­tion to emerge.

For the US, its al­lies and Iran the al­ter­na­tive to shar­ing the re­gion is a fu­tile and de­struc­tive pur­suit of dom­i­nance.

The on­go­ing protests in Iraq are nei­ther a con­spir­a­cy, nor a rev­o­lu­tion.

Iraq’s klep­to­crat­ic sys­tem is un­like­ly to change with the up­com­ing elec­tions.