The department of crisis study at the center for strategic and international studies held its quarterly scientific symposium entitled (The Turkish-Iranian competition and understanding In Iraq) with the participation of a number of experts and researchers from other research centers. The participants discussed the Turkish-Iranian rivalry and its implications for our country after 2003 that represents a clear competition between these two regional countries that are trying to take advantage of the situation in which Iraq is going through to impose their agenda.
The researchers asserted that the increased competition between Turkey and Iran could lead Iraq to be part of the regional axis policy and polarization as a result of the elements that qualify them to play this role, stating that perhaps this factor is what makes the competition stronger between them since Iraq is in possession of energy reserves. The participants reached at a number of recommendations, including the view that since Iraq, for many centuries ago, was the arena for the struggle of the Ottoman and Persian wills, with its vivid implications on the contemporary political situation at present, so it seems that this issue should be addressed by the Iraqi decision-maker, no matter what is his political affiliation, because of the great importance of this axis on Iraq’s regional relations on the political, economic, security and military levels.
