US and Seyyed alliance in Iraq is broken

The frustration with Iran also helps explain the administration's growing disillusionment with Maliki, whose Shiite-led government might have been a joint US-Iranian project.

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What is truly amazing is that the US administration tried to negotiate with the Seyyed Army. The Seyyed Army thinks it owns Iraq.

But at least the US has realised that it can only recognise the older divisions in the area, namely the national armies of the Arabs and Iranians.