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Folkism always welcome:



Background:

Both states have history that extends for millennia into the past. Iran and Iraq share a long border (the longest border for both nations) and an ancient cultural and religious heritage.
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Akkadian Empire
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Sargon of Akkad (r. 2334–2279 BC) was an Akkadian king who conquered Sumer and was the reason of moving the power from Southern Mesopotamia (southern Iraq) to central Mesopotamia (central Iraq). Sargon's vast empire is known to have extended from Elam to the Mediterranean sea, including Mesopotamia, parts of modern-day Iran and Syria
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Sumerian Empire
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The Third Dynasty of Ur (2119–2004 BC), or 'Neo-Sumerian Empire' was a Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur (southern Iraq). The Third Dynasty of Ur came to preeminent power in Mesopotamia after several centuries of Akkadian and Gutian rule. It controlled the cities of Isin, Larsa and Eshnunna, and extended from the Mediterranean (north Syrian) coast to the Persian Gulf and Western Iran.
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Sassanid Iranian Empire
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During the time of the Sassanid Empire, from the 3rd century to the 7th century, the major part of Iraq was called in Persian Del-e Īrānshahr (lit. "the heart of Iran"), and its metropolis Ctesiphon (not far from present-day Baghdad) functioned for more than 800 years as the capital city of Iran.[1][10]

According to Sassanian documents, Persians distinguished two kinds of land within their empire: [the heartlands] "Īrān", and [the colonies] "Anīrān" ("non-Īrān"). Iraq was considered to be part of Īrān [the heartlands].[11] As Wilhelm Eilers observes: "For the Sassanians, too [as it was for the Parthians], the lowlands of Iraq constituted the heart of their dominions". This shows that Iraq was not simply part of the Persian Empire—it was the heart of Persia.[11]
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Abbasid Caliphate
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The Abbasid Caliphate of circa 750 A.D. was the second of the two great Islamic caliphates. It was ruled by the Abbasid dynasty of caliphs, who built their capital in Baghdad (Iraq). The Abbasids had depended heavily on the support of Persians in their overthrow of the Umayyads.
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Late Middle Ages
Iran and Iraq both fell to the Mongols during the 13th century.

Who caused the modern hostility between Iran and Iraq?

"From 1921, when Britain installed Faysal Ibn Hussein as the king of the newly formed Iraq ... until 2003 ... Iraq was Iran's most hostile neighbor."
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Also in 1921, the British played a role in the 1921 Persian coup d'etat, which led to the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty as rulers of Iran in 1925.

Even so:

Iraq War
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After the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Iranian government strongly opposed the war and called for a key role for the UN in Iraq's reconstruction.
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Iran then offered assistance to Iraq's post-war reconstruction and bilateral relations began to improve. In May 2005, a transitional government led by Ibrahim al-Jaafari of the pro-Iran Islamist Dawa party was established in Iraq. In mid May, Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi visited Iraq and Jaafari paid a visit to Iran in July. In November, Iraqi president Jalal Talabani visited Iran, becoming the first Iraqi head of state to visit Iran in almost four decades.

Iran–Iraq relations have flourished since 2005 by the exchange of high level visits: Former Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki makes frequent visits, along with Jalal Talabani visiting numerous times, to help boost bilateral cooperation in all fields. A conflict occurred in December 2009, when Iraq accused Iran of seizing an oil well on the border.[36]

On April 24, 2011, Iran and Iraq signed an extradition accord. The high-level meeting by the justice ministers of both countries in Tehran followed in the aftermath of a raid by Iraqi forces on Camp Ashraf, home of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). The MEK is designated as a terrorist organization by Iran and Iraq.[37]

Iran has taken an increasingly salient role within the Iraqi government and security forces since the United States originally withdrew and ISIS rose to power. In Basra alone, there are numerous stories of Iranian militant factions harassing and kidnapping civilians.[3] On September 7, 2018, several months of protest and arson erupted into an attack against the Iranian consulate within Iraq, where it was set ablaze by rocket fire.[4]

On 9 April 2019, a day after the United States placed Iran's IRGC in the list of "Foreign Terrorist Organizations", Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said he had talked to all sides and tried to stop the designation.[38]

Eurocentrist Takaichi being herself:

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi drew widespread attention during her recent visit to Australia, where she knelt on both knees in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier to lay flowers at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.

The Tomb of the Unknown Australian Soldier commemorates Australians who died serving their country, including those killed fighting Japan during World War II.
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Highlighting the contrast, the user noted that while Takaichi knelt in front of Australian war victims, she would not do the same for victims in Asian countries such as China and South Korea: "If that's the case, it becomes a very pathetic story, showing a full-blown inferiority complex toward white people: kneeling for whites but not for Asians."
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Another user questioned: "I wonder why she can do this for Australia but not for East Asia. Is it because they're white?

Irrespective of whether or not she should kneel for other countries' war dead, she should definitely not kneel for Australian war dead considering they stole Australia in the first place.

Ignorant anti-Japanese propaganda likes to claim that Takaichi thinks similarly to WWII-era Japanese troops, but that she is apologizing for what they did (heroically kill "whites") is the best evidence of the opposite. If anything, Takaichi thinks more like Meiji-era Arctic Alliance Japanese Eurocentrists:

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Following the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901, the new federal government formally enacted the White Australia policy with the aim of barring non-European peoples, including the Japanese, from immigrating to Australia. Hisakichi Eitaki, the Japanese consul in Sydney, lodged a formal protest to Prime Minister Edmund Barton over the proposed Immigration Restriction Act 1901 and asked that Japanese citizens be exempted from the dictation test requirements as "the Japanese belong to an Empire whose standard of civilization is so much higher than that of Kanakas, Negroes, Pacific Islanders, Indians, or other Eastern peoples".[18]