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MENAFN (17 December 2019)

(MENAFN - Iraq Business News)

By Robbie Gramer, for Foreign Policy

The U.S. State Department sent Congress this month detailed plans to dramatically and permanently reduce the number of U.S. diplomats in Iraq, a measure that critics say runs directly against the Trump administration's stated goals of countering Iranian influence in the country and undercuts Washington's efforts to stabilize the Iraqi government.

Documents sent from the State Department to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and obtained by Foreign Policy shed new light on the department's decision earlier this year to draw down the number of diplomats and other U.S. personnel in Iraq.

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