Washington 0
23 November 2019

During a visit to Iraq, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence stressed that “we continue to be concerned about the malign influence of Iran across Iraq… I spoke with Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi about that, as well as the leadership here in the Kurdish region government, just to make sure they understand that our commitment is to the Iraqi people, but we want to see an Iraq that is free of the malign influence of Iran and is also respecting the rights and the voices of all of its people”.

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