The BBC quotes Rafik Hariri Center Nonresident Fellow Ramzy Mardini on Iranian intervention in Iraq:
US officials worry about the role Iran plays in Iraq. Still the Americans seem to think – or hope – Iran will eventually bail on Nuri al-Maliki and scale back their role in the Middle East.
Yet that is “wishful thinking”, says Ramzy Mardini, an Iraq expert at a think-tank in Washington.