Tony Stark has been appointed Secretary of Defense for the United States. Talk about a conflict of interest! He’s a munitions maker!
Like most Secretaries of Defense, he goes to Iraq to investigate the theft of weapons. Yes, that is sarcastic. SECDEFs are not soldiers or lead investigators. They’re civilians.
While in Iraq, he fights a Kurdish master chemist who bonds with a bacterial biological weapon. He blows her up in the end.
This story is so generic. Even the covers could be covers to any other Iron Man story.