Iraq balks at sanctioning Iranian airlines ahead of DC talks: ‘We don’t want to be part of this conflict’

WASHINGTON — Iraq’s foreign minister called his country “a victim” of the US-Iran war Thursday and said Baghdad is reluctant to agree to American requests to sanction Iranian airlines — making the remarks one day after President Trump announced the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.

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