العراق يسعى أيضا للتحالف مع الكويت والمملكة العربية السعودية مع، وهما البلدان المجاورة التي لم يكن هناك احتكاك كبير خلال معظم من 1970s.
Iraq also sought to ally itself with Kuwait and with Saudi Arabia, two neighboring countries with which there had been considerable friction during much of the 1970s.