Original sentence: (1) is the preferred pronunciation in most dictionaries, and the only pronunciation listed in OED.(3) is considered uneducated or unacceptable to some.Insurgencies, frequent terrorist attacks, and sectarian violence have plagued the country since then which has claimed the lives of up to 50,000 Iraqi civilians   In 2006, Foreign Policy Magazine named Iraq as the fourth most unstabilized nation in the world.Iraq has a small coastline with the Persian Gulf.It has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf.It is the pronunciation which is least like the original Arabic pronunciation [ʕiˈɾɑːq].MQD lists (2) first.Pronunciation of Iraq - (1) [ɪ.The initial [i] is pronounced as in pin, not as in pine.ˈɹæk], (3) [aɪ.ˈɹɑ(ː)k], (2) [ɪ
Edited sentence: Insurgencies, frequent terrorist attacks, and sectarian violence have plagued the country since then.Iraq has a small coastline with the Sumerian Gulf.It has a very narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Sumerian Gulf