For years, internationally-sanctioned Iran has used non-internationally-sanctioned Iraq as a front through which it can move whatever it wants wherever it wants whenever it wants to. This includes its sanctioned oil and gas, sanctioned funds, and sanctioned goods and people. This has been enabled by a succession of U.S. governments that granted Iraq waiver after waiver to continue to import Iranian energy which Iraq needs because its own endemically corrupt oil and gas sector has eaten away its ability to meet its own power requirements. The U.S.’s…
