The secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, argued that "Qasem Soleimani is causing trouble throughout Iraq and Syria and we need to raise the cost for him - for his organisation [the IRGC's Quds Force] and for him personally". Pompeo went on to say that "what America wants is an Iraqi Iraq for Iraqis, not influenced by Iran".
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