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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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David Pratt

America’s Iran onslaught is also dragging it back into war in Iraq

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi has a delicate balancing act to play with presidents Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran, right, and Donald Trump of the US (Image: Iranian Presidency/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Two decades after US troops battled Iran-backed militias on Iraq's streets, Foreign Editor David Pratt asks: Are we witnessing a rerun of American intervention?

LIKE some ghostly mirage, their convoy of trucks appeared out of the dust thrown up by the desert. Within minutes, they had pulled up on the roadside next to us.

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