No contest

IRAQI ministries are already welcoming unacknowledged Iranian envoys and despite 50,000 non-combatant American troops still in Iraq, Teheran will eventually compete with Washington to shape the country’s future.  The outcome is a foregone conclusion and Shia Iraqis will turn to Shia Iranians, to the unease of Sunni Iraqis and the West.  The can of worms opened in 2003 is about to become a vipers’ nest.