President Joe Biden's meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Shia al Sudani will focus on pressing regional issues as well as future deployments of American troops in Iraq.
President Joe Biden's meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Shia al Sudani will focus on pressing regional issues as well as future deployments of American troops in Iraq.President Biden is set to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister al Sudani this week. / Photo: Reuters
Biden and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin are both expected to address the US troop presence in meetings with al Sudani. “It is not the primary focus of the visit… but it is almost certainly going to come up,” one senior US official said last week. Iran's weekend attacks on Israel through Iraqi airspace have further underscored US concerns, although al Sudani had already left Baghdad and was en route to Washington when the drones and missiles were launched.The US has also sought to apply financial pressure over Baghdad’s relationship with Tehran, restricting Iraq’s access to its own dollars in an effort to stamp out money laundering said to benefit Iran and Syria.
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