Iran wants to name the next prime minister of Iraq. Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Mohammed Kawtharany, a top official with Hezbollah in Lebanon, have flown to Baghdad for talks on a successor to Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned last week. Soleimani personally directed Iraqi security forces’ deadly response to protests that began two months ago against government corruption ...