{"id":2255,"date":"2021-04-24T14:56:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T14:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/?p=2255"},"modified":"2021-04-25T06:33:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T06:33:30","slug":"iran-and-iraq-the-search-for-balance-in-bilateral-relations-in-light-of-the-iraqi-borders-and-political-forces-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/2021\/04\/2255\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran and Iraq: The Search for Balance in Bilateral Relations in Light of the Iraqi borders and Political Forces Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In describing the status-quo of the Iranian-Iraqi relations and the challenges and opportunities facing the two countries, it can be said that they both have many common strategic points. If they reach a particular stage, they can turn into strategic partners. However, both countries have many differences. This might lead the two countries to an all-out war if it is not resolved logically by adhering to political principles and following international law, taking into account broad regional participation.<br \/>\nThe common features between the two countries can be described but are not limited to: religion, religious tourism, long shared borders, bilateral economic capabilities, regional security \u2026etc. e. However, one can focus on a limited number of them.<br \/>\nShiites make up more than 60% of the population in Iraq, which is the second-largest Shiite country in terms of population after Iran. In addition, in the time of the Grand Ayatollah\u00a0Sayyid\u00a0Ali\u00a0al-<wbr \/>Sistani -the supreme authority- Najaf, is far from the governmental connection. Yet, the Najaf Seminary is the primary reference for all Shiites in the world.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9833339.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In describing the status-quo of the Iranian-Iraqi relations and the challenges and opportunities facing the two countries, it can be said that they both have many common strategic points. If they reach a particular stage, they can turn into strategic partners. However, both countries have many differences. This might lead the two countries to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,17],"tags":[541,31,45,157],"class_list":{"0":"post-2255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-domestic-and-foreign-policy","8":"category-research-papers","9":"tag-border","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-war"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/9eu9ued.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Y2nv-An","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions\/2258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bayancenter.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}