Iran Dominates in Iraq After U.S. ‘Handed the Country Over’
BAGHDAD — Walk into almost any market in Iraq and the shelves are filled with goods from Iran — milk, yogurt, chicken. Turn on the television and channel after channel broadcasts programs sympathetic to Iran.
巴格达。走进伊拉克任何一家市场，货架上都是伊朗生产的牛奶、酸奶和鸡肉。打开电视，每个频道都在播送同情伊朗的节目。
A new building goes up? It is likely that the cement and bricks came from Iran. And when bored young Iraqi men take pills to get high, the illicit drugs are likely to have been smuggled across the porous Iranian border.
一座大楼拔地而起？可能水泥和砖块是从伊朗运过来的。伊拉克年轻人无聊时嗑药嗑嗨了？违禁品可能从漏洞重重的伊朗边境走私而来。
And that’s not even the half of it.
这仅是冰山一角。
Across the country, Iranian-sponsored militias are hard at work establishing a corridor to move men and guns to proxy forces in Syria and Lebanon. And in the halls of power in Baghdad, even the most senior Iraqi cabinet officials have been blessed, or bounced out, by Iran’s leadership.
在整个国家，伊朗支持的民兵正建立走廊，将士兵和枪支送往叙利亚和黎巴嫩参加代理战争。在权力中心巴格达，即便伊拉克内阁中最资深的官员，伊朗也可以左右其去留。
When the United States invaded Iraq 14 years ago to topple Saddam Hussein, it saw Iraq as a potential cornerstone of a democratic and Western-facing Middle East, and vast amounts of blood and treasure — about 4,500 American lives lost, more than $1 trillion spent — were poured into the cause.
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