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Iran not just focused on Maliki in Iraqi elections

The Iranian government expects to be well-positioned no matter who wins in Iraq’s elections.

Ali Hashem
Ali Hashem
May 2, 2014
Iraqi women walk towards a poster depicting images of Shi'ite Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad February 12, 2014. An Iraqi daily newspaper stopped publishing after two bombs were planted in the entrance to its headquarters in Baghdad on Monday and after threats from an Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia. Editors and reporters at Assabah AlJadeed said they had received death threats from the influential Asaib al-Haq militia in response to what it had described as an "i
Iraqi women walk toward a poster depicting images of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at al-Firdous Square in Baghdad, Feb. 12, 2014. — REUTERS/Ahmed Saad

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