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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Back To Iraq

Guardian UK: Iraq's shock election result may be turning point for Iran - Result is blow to US, but Iran will also lose out after Iraq’s protest against rule by proxy
But the bigger loser may be Iran, whose allies in Iraq’s Shia militias known as the Popular Mobilisation Forces were pushed into second place by Moqtada al-Sadr, the veteran nationalist. Put simply, Sadr believes Iraqis should run Iraqi affairs – not Washington, not Tehran and not their proxies.

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