The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, at a meeting in the Iranian capital Tehran, June 12, 2021. (Photo: Vahid Salemi/AP)
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani speaking during a panel moderated by the New York Times' Jane Arraf in the 7th Suli Forum at AUIS in Sulaimani, March 15, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi prime minister's office)
the Basrah Breeze, a private yacht that was owned by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, moored in the Shatt al-Arab waterway, in Iraq's southern city of Basra, March 2, 2023. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani heading a ministers meeting to vote on the federal budget in Baghdad on March 13, 2023. (Photo: Iraqi Prime Minister's Press Office/ AFP)
A vehicle drives past the iconic Freedom Monument, a 50-metre (165-foot) long bas relief that honors the 1950 revolution which overthrew Iraq's monarchy, in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on March 9, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP)
Water buffalo herders in the marshes of Chibayish feed their animals after back to back drought severely reduced available food stocks in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2022. (Photo: Anmar Khalil/ AP)
A photo shows captagon pills, hidden in apple crates, after they were seized by the Iraqis at the al-Qaim border crossing between Syria and Iraq, March 11, 2023. (Photo: Iraq Border Authority/AFP)
A vehicle drives past the iconic Freedom Monument, a 50-metre (165-foot) long bas relief that honors the 1950 revolution which overthrew Iraq's monarchy, in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on March 9, 2023. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/ AFP)
UNESCO chief Audrey Azoulay (C) and Iraqi Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani (L), on March 7, 2023, in Mosul. (Photo: AFP)
Mohammed Shia’ Al-Sudani (right), the Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq, during his meeting with top delegation from the European Parliament, March 6, 2023. (Photo: the media office of the Iraqi Prime Minster)
