Where does Iran stand on neighbouring Iraq's political turmoil?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : "What matters most to Iran is that there needs to be stability in Iraq.
47% :Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein landed in Tehran for high-level meetings early on Monday, shortly before powerful religious leader Muqtada al-Sadr claimed he was withdrawing from politics, leading his supporters to storm government headquarters in Baghdad.
46% : He said his followers should emulate Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran, instead of the Shia centres in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf.
45% :"Afghanistan can't replace Iraq for Iran, neither can Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan or even Turkey - with whom we have a higher volume of trade than Iraq," he told Al Jazeera."Especially in meetings with high-level Iraqi officials who come to see the supreme leader, I've heard many times that the supreme leader clearly states that Iraq is the strategic depth of Iran and Iran is the strategic depth of Iraq.
44% : But, regardless of what Iran wants, the analyst said al-Sadr reached a "political dead-end" on multiple fronts.
40% : Tehran, Iran - Iran has a stake in the stability of its western neighbour Iraq, which has just experienced two days of deadly violence after months of political turmoil.
40% :Iran has been in favour of the consensus mechanism - based on the constitution - that was formed in the post-2003 US invasion era, but al-Sadr has at times presented himself as an opponent of Iranian influence in Iraq despite having some ties with Iran himself, having studied in the seminaries in the Iranian city of Qom.
39% : Iran is not interested in micro-managing Iraqi politics, instead prioritising any destabilisation that could jeopardise its own national security, according to Mohammad Saleh Sedghian, director of the Arabic Center for Iranian Studies.
37% : The two have a shared 1,400km [870-mile]-long border line and were at war for eight years [during the 1980s], and now whatever security issue happens in Iraq is somehow reflected in Iran, whether good or bad," Sedghian told Al Jazeera.
37% : "When the Sadrist movement occupied the Iraqi parliament building, Iran didn't interfere and it doesn't want to interfere now."
37% :Iran and Iraq have historical, cultural and religious ties that make the two "deeply intertwined" like none other of the countries in their vicinity, according to Middle East analyst and former Iranian diplomat Hadi Afghahi.
32% : According to Afghahi, the US and Israel would rather see Iraq fragmented into Shia, Sunni and Kurdish divisions, something that would be to the detriment of Iraq, Iran and the region.

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