![Iraqi Efforts to Connect Asia and Europe by Rail May Help Sideline Iran](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2023/03/railroad_1679673330.jpg)
The Iraqi government’s decision to pour enormous funding into an ambitious railroad project that will connect Asia and Europe indicates that Iran may be inching ever closer to geopolitical obsolescence. Reports emerged last year that the governments of Iraq, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) had reached a transport agreement that would enable the [...]