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How US-Iran escalation will test Iraq’s balancing act

The Iraqi PM visited the White House to deepen economic ties, as Iraq-based allies of Iran threatened to fight the US.

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The Iraqi PM visited the White House to deepen economic ties, as Iraq-based allies of Iran threatened to fight the US. At the White House on Tuesday, US President Donald Trump was effusive towards Iraq’s visiting prime minister, the 40-year-old Ali al-Zaidi, describing him as “young”, “handsome” and as someone he wanted to work with. They shook hands warmly.

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