US Out, Iran In: Did America Just Hand Iraq to Iran? | The Link
On September 30th, the last American troops flew out of Erbil. Iran’s allies are calling it “a historic victory.” Saudi Arabia is counting the cost. And the fear is that Iran now gets a walkover in Iraq.In this episode of The Link, Shubhangi Sharma connects the dots: why the US left in the middle of a war with Iran, how a drone launched from Iraq hit Saudi Arabia’s pipeline to Yanbu, and why Iraq’s oil money still sits in New York.
Chapter Plates:
00:00 - Introduction
00:49 - How a 2024 drawdown deal turned into a wartime exit
01:14 - 600 attacks on US sites in Iraq since February
02:13 - From the 2003 invasion to the rise of the Popular Mobilisation Forces
03:40 - Why Iraq is Iran’s land bridge to Syria and Lebanon
04:37 - Retreat, trade-off or victory for Iran? Three ways to read the exit
05:40 - Who fills the vacuum: militias and ISIS sleeper cells
06:20 - Saudi Arabia’s exposed northern flank
06:52 - The India link: crude supplies and the Yanbu pipeline
07:26 - America’s last lever: Iraq’s dollars at the New York Fed
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