Iran in Iraq
Atlantic, The, May, 2007
Q. Does the Bush administration's public assessment of Iran's involvement in the insurgency and sectarian violence in Iraq overstate Iran’s role, understate it, or get it about right?
48%: Overstates
“Iran is playing a role, but so are others. There is little doubt that funds are flowing from Saudi Arabia in support of the Sunni insurgency, which has claimed the greatest number of Iraqi lives and American troops. There are many bad actors, and we need to sustain attention on all of them -- and we need to talk to all of them as well.”
“The fundamental problem in Iraq isn't Iran (or Syria for that matter), but the fact that the U.S. invasion opened up a Pandora's Box of sectarian tensions. The result is the civil war we are now witnessing. And it shouldn't be surprising that sectarian factions will look for financial, material, ...