Aymenn Al-Tamimi

Aymenn Al-Tamimi has a short article 'The U.S. Anti-ISIS Strategy’s True Cost' and sub-titled 'Can the U.S. do anything to stop Iran’s influence from expanding in Iraq while it counts on the country as a quiet partner against ISIS?':http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...true-cost.html

Concern has been expressed that the U.S. ‘risks’ losing Iraq to Iran in the fight against IS, but it is probably more accurate to say the U.S. has already lost Iraq to Iran. No good options seem to exist, and the expansion of Iran’s sphere of influence may well have to be accepted as an inevitable consequence of the original decision to invade Iraq and remove Saddam’s regime from power.