Is Iran Creating Its Own State Within Iraq?
(2015) In The Guardian/Tehran Bureau- Abstract
- Given the strength of nationalist sentiment across all Iraqi sects and the broad-based recognition of Sistani as a force for national unity, it will be difficult for Shia PMU groups to form a quasi-state in parallel to the Iraqi government once Isis is dislodged. In the eventuality of such a political outgrowth, the PMUs are bound to lose Sistani’s backing, and with it their legitimacy in the eyes of millions of Iraqi Shias who currently support them.
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- author
- Malik, Hamdi and Behravesh, Maysam LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2015-05-18
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Iraq, Iran, Shia Paramilitary Forces, Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Islamic State, IS, Ayatollah Sistani, Iraqi Nationalism, Sunni Arabs, State Within a State, Deep State, Parallel State, Hezbollah, Badr Organization, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Unity, Sectarianism, Militia, Leader, Civilization, Rouhani, Haidar al-Abadi
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- Popular Science
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- The Guardian/Tehran Bureau
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- e131fc9c-5031-4a24-a853-9ef45b8b2d0b (old id 5410163)
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- http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/irans-state-within-state-in-iraq-shia
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- 2016-04-04 14:32:26
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- 2018-11-21 21:20:53
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