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

Source: New York Post

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. “We became a victim of this war — we, Iraq,” foreign minister Fuad Hussein told a small group of reporters at the Iraqi embassy. “Our economy became a victim, but our people also.