reported<\/a> on March 5, 2017, the following is the full text.<\/p>\nSpeaking at his home in central Baghdad for the first time since Trump’s election, Allawi is now able to open up about Obama’s major mistakes, which critics say brought Iraq into turmoil and which Trump will need to address.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica has lost a lot of potential friends here in the region. \u2026 and this is something that the new administration has to address.\u201d<\/p>\n
Obama\u2019s principal error, says Allawi, was his disengagement from a country and a region which desperately needed U.S. support. At a time when Iraq couldn\u2019t stand on its own, Obama left — leaving a vacuum for Iran to fill. Iran\u2019s new influence, he says, is behind much of the bloodshed.
\u201cWhen our American friends left Iraq in 2011 they never laid down the issues that would strengthen the Iraqis to face the challenges ahead — their sudden withdrawal in 2011 without the necessary preparation left us many problems to face.<\/p>\n
Allawi, who also served as interim prime minister in 2014-2015, was very clear about Iran\u2019s impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s leading to bloodshed, to catastrophes and to wars around the Middle East\u2026.It has been a destabilizing factor. It\u2019s destabilizing Iraq, it\u2019s destabilizing Syria \u2013 it\u2019s destabilizing other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n
This Iranian influence, he said, could be traced firmly back to Obama. In 2010, Allawi won the elections in Iraq, winning the seats, but was pressured by the Obama administration to back down — in a direct interference with the political system.<\/p>\n
\u201cBiden came several times here; in fact, he used to come once a week to convince me to withdraw my interest and I told him we are not interested in withdrawing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eventually Obama got his way, and Iranian-backed Nouri Maliki stepped in. This is the moment Allawi sees as a turning point for Iraq\u2026 Today large parts of the army are under Iranian control (via their support for Shia militias) and many state institutions also answer to Iran.
Today another country is also moving into the region \u2013 Russia. But Allawi believes Russian President Vladimir Putin can and should be worked with to defeat ISIS.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think we should look at competition here between the U.S. and Russia, but rather as supplementing each other, and this is what I look forward to — what the new administration will do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Allawi also doesn\u2019t believe the battle against ISIS is the final one.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can see a lot of problems that will emerge after ISIS is defeated because I always say that not only is the military victory against ISIS enough, it needs to be supported by political gains.”<\/p>\n
Allawi says he hopes to unite Iraq — Sunni, Shia and Kurdish — but acknowledges it won\u2019t be easy — Iraq is engulfed in sectarianism — and many in the region, not least Iran, thrive on division.<\/p>\n
He also hoped for U.S. support moving forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to see more American power here, we don\u2019t want to see more American troops here, we don\u2019t want to see more Americans being killed here in this country. But we need the political leverage of the U.S. to help Iraq and to develop Iraq.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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