If you think we still cry about the Iraq-Iran war, you're delusional. We just laugh at the turn of events that made you into our proxy state.
Well, no matter what, Iraq will be one of the countries on the receiving end of our ballistic and cruise missiles in case of a large scale US-Iran clash. So, you're involved in it and will get heavily damaged by its consequences, like it or not.
By the way, I just remembered something. See that thread about
Iran overhauling a Boeing 747? Our airlines have been under US sanctions since 1980, meaning that no company in the world where the US directly or indirectly holds a share of at least 5% (literally all companies that produce passenger planes) can sell passenger planes to Iran. As for used passenger planes, the US allows the sale of passenger planes that are older than 25 years old to Iran only.
If a similar sanction had been imposed on you, even for a year, your whole aviation industry would've collapsed and your entire in and out traffic would've disappeared. There would've been no need for a no-fly zone then. The very fact that our engineers have kept our passenger planes (and military jet fighters) flying without any foreign assistance or cooperation from their original companies is nothing short of an engineering miracle. Something that Saddam's Iraq and even today's Iraq was not and is not capable of.