Middle
East security
The
face stares out from multiple billboards in central Baghdad, a grey-haired
general casting a watchful eye across the Iraqi capital. This military commander
is not Iraqi, though. He's Iranian.
The
posters are a recent arrival, reflecting the influence Iran now wields in
Baghdad.
Iraq is
a mainly Arab country. Its citizens, Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims alike, have long
mistrusted Iran, the Persian nation to the east. But as Baghdad struggles to
fight the Sunni extremist group Islamic State, many Shi'ite Iraqis now look to
Iran, a Shi'ite theocracy, as their main ally.
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