I didn't say Iran is the cause. I am saying IR has got Iran involved in these local wars. First they said we have to keep Assad at any cost. They went in with a few advisors then brought in the heavy guns and when they saw even that wasn't enough called in their buddies in Lebanon. Now they got the same people over in Iraq. They now HAVE to fight them in Iraq because if they don't they get encircled in Syria. You see where this is going? US with all her might and wealth went bankrupt in Iraq. How do you expect Iran end up? IR is acting like a mini superpower. Whatever is going on in the middle east is their concern. What they don't know is that they are not big enough to handle them all. To Maliki I say go ahead, call Tehran. You were buddy buddy with them a few months ago. Use some of those fine domestically produced weapons you just ordered from them.
you are either intellectually bankrupt or you just speaking emotionally.
I for one am against a majority of foreign policies IRI is employing has employed toward the west.
but when it comes to regional power games they have not done too bad of a job in the past 20 years.
It does not really matter for Iran how much it should spend to deploy forces or ammunition in Iraq.
if it comes to a few billion It would not matter. that's because Iraq is next door to Iran with a long border.
Major instability in that country can easily affect Iran.
Iran's policy toward Iraq is very clear. Iran wants Iraq to be stable but It does like to see Iraq grow so powerful that
its future leaders would once again seek adventurous foreign policy against neighbors.
Iraq shares a border with Saudi Arabia. Having some allies in Iraq can help Iran put pressure on Saudis when the times comes over for negotiation.
By the Saudis are doing the same thing. They are spending money in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan to put pressure on Iran.
your view of political calculus is rather over simplified.