Abdul Aziz Hakim, the leader of SCIRI, is in Washington. He’s being portrayed as a moderate. This is a mistake. Iran is playing a clever game of bad-cop, worse-cop. Iran supports both Muqtada and Hakim. They share the same goal; there differences are only of style.
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Michael Rubin is Director of Policy Analysis at the Middle East Forum and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
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