The Iranian role in Iraq – U.S. SOFA negotiations

It seems that Iran suc­ceeded to force the Amer­i­cans to accept a timetable for the with­drawal of their troops out of Iraq.

Accord­ing to Al-Malaf Press, the Iran­ian gov­ern­ment threat­ened Al Maliki to change his gov­ern­ment if he accepts the SOFA agreement.

This was the real rea­son behind Maliki chang­ing atti­tude against the agree­ment in Jor­dan announc­ing that the agree­ment reached a dead end.

Sources told the news­pa­per that the agree­ment is secretly accepted by Maliki’s gov­ern­ment with a timetable back in May but peo­ple from inside Maliki’s office leaked the infor­ma­tion to the Iranians.