Jordan feels Soleimani side effects
The assassination of Iran’s top commander, Qasem Soleimani, has raised concerns in Jordan, with analysts fearing retaliation against US military assets in the kingdom.
AMMAN, Jordan — Just one year ago, King Abdullah II met Iraqi President Barham Salih, marking the first royal Jordanian trip to Iraq in more than a decade.
On the agenda were plans to include Jordan in the economic benefits of Iraq's post-Islamic State (IS) future, including the building of a 1,700-kilometer (1,056-mile) pipeline linking the oil-rich Basra governorate to Jordan's Red Sea port of Aqaba.
Technocrats accompanying Abdullah brought blueprints for a plan for Iraq to import around 300 megawatts of electricity from Jordan to help Baghdad ease its chronic power shortages.
The sudden advance of IS toward Baghdad in 2014 with fighting continuing until the liberation of Mosul three years later had kept the Karama-Trebil border closed for two full years.
