Tehran 0
6 April 2019

Iraq's prime minister traveled to Tehran, where he met with President Rouhani as well as Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; he was accompanied by senior military officials who held discussions with their Iranian opposite numbers. Khamenei told Abdul-Mahdi that "the Iraqi government should take actions so that U.S. troops will leave Iraq as soon as possible".

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