American website: Al-Sudani’s visit to Washington was to discuss partnership, not the removal of the American presence

A report by the American website War on Rock, which specializes in political affairs, confirmed that the previous visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani to Washington was in search of partnership and not the removal of the American military presence from the country.

The report, translated by the Maalouma Agency, stated, “The Sudanese came to Washington looking for a new type of partnership with the United States, and from Baghdad’s point of view, the relationship with the United States has been greatly exaggerated in the security file.”

He added that “Iraq, under the leadership of Al-Sudani, wants to “transform the relationship… from a unilateral relationship to a comprehensive relationship,” while Iraq realizes that oil and gas will be among its primary specialties for some time to come, as Al-Sudani’s visit to Houston to meet with energy companies there showed. , he also realizes that he needs to use those revenues (or at least the small portion left afterward) as seed capital to diversify.

“There are many positive signs of economic development in Iraq, but further U.S.-Iraq trade relations, especially outside the oil and gas industry and defense sales, are likely to progress slowly, without significant Iraqi concessions, and a dark cloud of corruption and lack of transparency always hangs over them, at least until Iraq takes serious steps on these issues,” he said.

The report noted that “the United States is exerting pressure to prevent Iraq from being linked to the Iranian economy in general and from being granted access to dollars in particular, so how Iraq might be able to develop a non-oil economy while being isolated from its larger eastern neighbor (and Syria to the west as well) remains undetermined, as the United States has effectively left Iraq to breathe with one economic lung, Turkey, as it is a U.S. ally.”

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