Clare – Dinar Guru Article: “Diplomatic source: Al-Zaidi wants Iraq’s relationship with Iran to be state-to-state, not one involving guards, factions, and special corridors” Quote: “…Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is seeking to end one of the most dangerous areas of ambiguity in the Iraqi state, which is the movement of political and factional leaders between Baghdad and Tehran outside the knowledge of the government…The new measures do not appear to be merely protocol-based, but rather represent an attempt to put an end to a parallel relationship that allowed Tehran to communicate directly with its allies inside Iraq…“