>Doesn’t speak Sumerian, Akkadian, or any language from Mesopotamia and instead speaks Arabic, a language from the Arabian peninsula
>Doesn’t follow the native Mesopotamian religion and instead follows Islam, a religion from the Arabian peninsula
>Doesn’t have any cultural or genetic ties to the ancient Mesopotamians most of its inhabitants primarily descend from Arab invaders who conquered and raped the native Mesopotamians out of existence (who even by that time, stopped speaking Akkadian and Sumerian in favor of Aramaic and stopped following the native Mesopotamian religion in favor of Christianity)
>Persecutes the Assyrians, the only group with any real cultural and genetic ties to ancient Mesopotamian. But even then, they don’t speak Akkadian or Sumerian and instead Aramaic nor do they follow the ancient Mesopotamian religion and instead follow Christianity
Modern Iraq has no claim to ancient Mesopotamia
Even their name doesn’t have any Mesopotamian roots and instead comes from the Middle Persian word “Eraq” meaning “lowland” (because the region was the lowest part of the Sassanid empire).
Just as modern Jews lie about being descended from the ancient Israelites, Iraqis lie about being descended from the ancient Mesopotamians