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Joe Snell

Joe Snell is an editorial team member of Al-Monitor. On Twitter: @joesnell03, Email: jsnell@al-monitor.com

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) meets with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi (R), in the capital Tehran, on March 27, 2021. - Iran and China signed what state television called a "25-year strategic cooperation pact" on today as the US rivals move closer together. The agreement, which has been kept almost entirely under wraps, was signed by the two countries' foreign ministers, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Wang Yi, an AFP correspondent reported.

The Takeaway: China moves to elevate its role in Middle East, but faces odds

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Iraqi protesters take part in a demonstration at Tahrir Square in Baghdad on December 21, 2020.

Despite Baghdad-Erbil agreement, Iraq fails to pass federal budget bill

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Likud party supporters wave flags bearing the party's leader, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as they react at their party campaign headquarters in Jerusalem on March 23, 2021

The Takeaway: Israel: Deja vu, all over again

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Iraq passes law addressing women survivors of Yazidi genocide

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China, Iran relations widen amid renewed nuclear talks

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First doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to hit Iraq by February

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Iran's Christians face renewed fears ahead of Christmas

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Ruhollah Zam, a former opposition figure who had lived in exile in France and had been implicated in anti-government protests, speaks during his trial at Iran's Revolutionary Court in Tehran on June 2, 2020. - Iran said it has sentenced to death Ruhollah Zam. The court has considered 13 counts of charges together as instances of 'corruption on earth' and therefore passed the death sentence, judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said. (Photo by ALI SHIRBAND / MIZAN NEWS / AFP) (Photo by ALI SHIRBAND/MIZA

Death penalty upheld for Iran journalist defector who turned from establishment

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The remains of carved feet of a "Lamassu" statue, an Assyrian deity often depicted as a winged-bull with a human head, stands inside the destroyed museum of Mosul on April 2, 2017 after Iraqi forces recaptured it from Islamic State (IS) group fighters.
Iraqi forces seized the museum from IS on March 7 as they pushed into west Mosul as part of a vast offensive to oust the jihadists from the northern city. / AFP PHOTO / AHMAD GHARABLI (Photo credit should read AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

Scarred but still standing, Mosul museum reopens at last

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Firsat Sofi (R), the governor of Arbil, gives mask to people to protect themselves against the coronavirus COVID-19, on June 4, 2020 in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. (Photo by SAFIN HAMED / AFP) (Photo by SAFIN HAMED/AFP via Getty Images)

Erbil governor dies of coronavirus; his 'legacy of service will endure,' PM Barzani says

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Iraqi KRG checkpoints part of crackdown on PKK

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Ex-Ninevah governor arrested as Iraqi government reins in corruption

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