As America Leaves Syria, Iran Isn’t as Happy as You Think
Tehran finds itself at cross-purposes with Damascus and Ankara as Baghdad slips away./ His decision on the Kurds creates political problems at home. Image: Delil Souleiman/Getty Images/ It is the conceit of the commentariat that Iran is a winner of the latest mayhem in the Middle East—the departure of U.S. troops from Syria and the subsequent Turkish incursion. Yet the clerical oligarchs seem anxious about all that is happening around them. A continuing Syrian civil war was working for Tehran. It had managed to navigate skillfully the ...
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