Iranian official calls for negotiations with Washington in Iraq

[haymon]

Step right up, put your money down ladies and gentleman...

[King Bean]

Just wait until those back-stabbers realize Iran is capable of lobbing nukes at every

one of their capitals. Then they will expect the US Military to jump in and make

                   everything right again. As Arnold would say...……….

             

[GreedyDinar07]

Interesting.........

[Pitcher]

Couldn’t agree more with what you posted King

[yota691]

 

Germany announces the launch of a European financial mechanism to deal with Iran

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Germany announces the launch of a European financial mechanism to deal with Iran
   German Foreign Minister Haikou Mas announced the launch of his country, France and Britain as a financial mechanism to help European companies avoid the ban on Iran.

Earlier Thursday, EU foreign policy commissioner Federica Mugherini said Britain, France and Germany would launch a mechanism to facilitate business dealings with Iran within hours.

The mechanism has been called INSTEX It would circumvent US sanctions against Iran.

[Pitcher]

Maybe we should close our bases in the EU because Iran will be looking to use those ballistic missles they weren’t supposed to be developing the first time they have a disagreement.  Great friends and Allies. As a matter of fact maybe NATO needs to be dissolved.  This is a shallow move on their part imo.  

[yota691]

02-02-2019 12:47 PM

China draws a powerful blow to Iran

 

 

 

Baghdad

China fears the impact of US economic sanctions on Iran, which prompted it to reconsider its trade relations with it recently .

Beijing has begun slowing its work on an Iranian nuclear project, as its current trade negotiations with the United States are entering a critical course .

The director of Iran's Atomic Energy Agency Ali Akbar Salehi acknowledged on Wednesday that the Chinese are reducing the pace of cooperation with the Iranians, despite their commitment to redesigning the Arak Heavy Water Reactor, the South China Morning Post reported .

Salehi said China feared possible US sanctions on its nuclear facilities if it continued to cooperate with Iran, the IRNA news agency reported.

Salehi urged Beijing to normalize the project and insisted that alternative options existed if China withdrew from the project.

Beijing and Tehran have agreed on the project as part of a nuclear deal with Iran reached in 2015 .

A spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Agency, Behruz Kamalundi, accused China earlier this month of disrupting the project .

The re-design of the Arak reactor with China was supposed to take place at a faster pace, he said, adding that the two countries were cooperating to install the equipment in the redesign process .

He stressed his country was ready to move to the next stage of work alone if necessary.

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Trump: We want to stay in Iraq

In International - Reports  February 3, 2019C Trump: We want to stay in Iraq closed  24 visits

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump has announced his intention to keep his troops in Iraq to monitor the region.

"All I want to be able to watch," Trump said during his appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" program, "We have a great and expensive military base in Iraq, and it is very appropriate to monitor the situation in all parts of the Middle East. Troubled, this is better than withdrawal. "

"This is something that many people do not understand," Trump said. "We intend to continue monitoring. If there are problems or wants to manufacture nuclear weapons or other things, we know before they do that."

"One reason we want to keep it is because we want to watch Iran somehow because Iran is a real problem ... I want to be able to monitor Iran," Trump said.

[Donziman]

Good thinking. We have tried draw downs before and it creates a vacume that

that is soon filled by the bad guys of every color. We are the people every one 

loves to hate. It diverts these sub groups from going to war with each other. imho

[yota691]

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Putin's special envoy in Iraq hours after Trump's statements!

 

 

Mikhail Bogdanov, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Russia's special envoy to the Middle East and North Africa, went to Baghdad on a two-day working visit.

The visit of Bogdanov to Iraq coincided with the announcement by US President Donald Trump, his intention to keep his troops in Iraq to monitor the activity of Iran.

On January 30, Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim visited Russia after his appointment in October 2018.

Lavrov said at a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart that Moscow hopes that the US military presence in Iraq will meet its stated objectives of combating terrorism and helping the government achieve stability, not to address the geopolitical tasks of the United States in this region.

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Conscious / Iranian comment on Trump's comments on the survival of US forces in Iraq

 

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 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif commented on US President Donald Trump's comments on the presence of US troops in Iraq to monitor Iran.

Zarif said in a statement ( Iraqi news agency INA ) that "Trump's insolence was caused by the subservience of the rulers of some Arab countries."

US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he intends to keep his troops in Iraq to "monitor Iran."

"As much as I want to be able to watch, we have a great and expensive military base in Iraq, and it is very appropriate to monitor the situation in all parts of the Middle East," Trump said during his appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" program on Sunday. Troubled Middle East, and this is better than withdrawal. "

"This is something that many people do not understand. We intend to continue monitoring. If there are problems or wants to manufacture nuclear weapons or other things, we will know before they do that," he said.

Trump confirmed that some US military personnel to be withdrawn from Syria would join US forces in Iraq.

Trump, however, criticized US military intervention in Iraq, calling it "one of the biggest mistakes the United States has made in history."

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Trump: We have an incredible and expensive military base in Iraq and we seek to control Iran

17:40 - 03/02/2019

 

  

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US President Donald Trump revealed Sunday, the existence of an incredible and expensive in Iraq , aUS military base, as pointed out that US forces will monitor Iran from this rule. 
"We have an incredible and expensive military base built in Iraq and it is in a very ideal place to look all over the Middle East," Trump said in an interview with CBS Nation's "Face of the Nation" program. Troubled Middle East rather than withdrawing. " 
"What many people do not understand is that we will continue to watch and we will continue to see, if there is a problem or if someone is looking to build nuclear weapons or other things, we will know that before they do it," he said.
Asked about the assertion by all intelligence chiefs that Iran remains committed to the nuclear deal, Trump explained: "I disagree with them, yes I have people in the intelligence, but that does not mean I agree with them in everything they say."

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Conscious / Deputy responds to Trump's recent decision: Iraq is not a land of your father

 

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The deputy of the Sadikoun bloc, the political wing of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq rightist movement in parliament, said on Sunday that US President Donald Trump had decided to stay in Iraq.

Salem said in a statement received ( and the Iraqi News Agency INA ) that "Iraq is not inferior to your father to stay and will not allow any foreign troops on our territory," surprisingly , " the government 's silence over the US recklessness."

He called on parliament to "expedite the legislation of the law to remove foreign forces from Iraq," noting that "we will not allow America to use Iraq to monitor or attack neighboring countries."

US President Donald Trump announced earlier Sunday that his administration would keep US forces in Iraq to "monitor Iran," while referring to a "very appropriate" military base in Iraq to monitor the situation in the Middle East.

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Conscious / others: It is time to remove US troops from Iraq after Trump's comments

 

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The head of the reform and reconstruction bloc and the deputy of the coalition of the Saron, Sabah al-Saadi, said on Sunday that we presented earlier the proposal to end the Sufa agreement and the cancellation of the third section of the strategic framework agreement between Iraq and the United States that this proposal is to preserve the national sovereignty, US military practices and presence We have encountered some objections at the time for many reasons, including not read the regional and international arena well by some.

"Today, Trump confirms what we went through with his statement that the presence of US forces in Iraq to monitor Iran," al-Saadi said in a statement received by Iraqi media news agency INA. "Neither Tramb nor his forces nor any other country can use the land of Iraq for The threat of another nation, national sovereignty requires today all political forces to combine their words to preserve this sovereignty and not to make Iraq an arena for the liquidation of regional and international accounts and we can not allow the US occupation forces that committed the terrible and shameful crimes in Iraq against the Iraqi people that threaten security and community peace Palm Arsat provocative. "

"We call upon the political forces, the elite and the academic cadres and the masses of the Iraqi people to unite and unite on one word to prevent the violation of Iraqi sovereignty," he said.

Al-Saadi called on the House of Representatives in general and its presidency in particular to expedite the legislation of the proposed law, which we submitted to end and repeal the Sufa Convention and the third part of the Strategic Framework Agreement.

"We call upon President Barham Saleh to take all measures to ensure the sovereignty of Iraq and the firm response to Trump's statements. Article 67 of the Constitution has made the President of the Republic the symbol of the State and the guarantor to preserve its unity and territorial integrity."

"We call on Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to take all measures to restrict the movement of US and foreign forces in Iraq until the legislation passed by us."

"We call on Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali al-Hakim to take all measures and in accordance with international and diplomatic norms on Trump's statements that are sensitive to the sovereignty and security of Iraq," he said.

"We all have to know today the magnitude of our national responsibility to protect Iraq from dragging it into regional or international conflicts and violating sovereignty that jeopardizes its security by making it an arena of influence and conflict," he said.

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Its just astonishing how clueless and Unconscious of the world around them these people really are. 

[nannab]

21 minutes ago, yota691 said:

we can not allow the US occupation forces that committed the terrible and shameful crimes in Iraq against the Iraqi people tha

 

There are no words.  Except

7 minutes ago, 10 YEARS LATER said:

Its just astonishing how clueless and Unconscious of the world around them these people really are. 

 

Good evening Yota and DV  

[10 YEARS LATER]

1 hour ago, nannab said:

 

There are no words.  Except

 

Good evening Yota and DV  

 

Yep .... it’s all our fault they now have the capacity to govern themselves etc. etc. etc. etc. Perhaps they’d prefer to have Maliki or something akin to Saddam back in power.

Nothing says peace & tranquility like a murderous Dictator, Secret Police, Informants, Spys, Family members disappearing never to be heard from again...this list is endless.

 

We should be ashamed and apologize profusely for giving these people the opportunity to head down THE TERRIBLE PATH TO SELF GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC PROSPERITY !!!

 

I just feel awful about this. 🖕

 

I’m sure we all have some choice adjectives we could use to describe these ungrateful people.

[Butifldrm]

Iran Launches Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency 'PayMon'

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The Islamic Republic of Iran has reportedly launched a gold-backed cryptocurrency called “PayMon” – the Persian word for covenant – in cooperation with four local banks and the Ghoghnoos Company, in a move made following international sanctions.

According to the Financial Tribune, the country has launched the gold-backed cryptocurrency in cooperation with the Parsian Bank, the Bank Pasargad, Bank Melli Iran, and Bank Mellat. An over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency exchange called Iran Fara Bourse is also expected to adopt the cryptocurrency.

The news outlet quoted Valiollah Fatemi, director at Ghoghnoos, who revealed the PayMon was set to be used to tokenize the financial institutions’ assets and properties.

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An Iranian gold-backed digital currency created on blockchain platform was unveiled by Ghoghnoos Company in a ceremony attended by CEOs of banks and judiciary officials. The cryptocurrency is the

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According to Ghoghnoos, a total of one billion PayMon tokens are set to be issued initially. The move comes months after international sanctions started crippling the country’s economy by forcing payment networks such as that of SWIFT from offering services to its institutions.

This has stopped Iranian citizens from conducting business with the rest of the world, and saw the country’s government plan a rial-supported national cryptocurrency, that as reported was to go to commercial banks in a first phase. While little is known about the cryptocurrency, some believe it was developed for the Iranian central bank by Informatics Services Corporation (ISC).

In a second phase, the rial-backed cryptocurrency – which is set to only be issued by Iran’s central bank – would go to citizens in the country. The gold-backed crypto, PayMon, was also launched shortly after the central bank issued draft cryptocurrency regulations.

These reserved a ban that stopped local banks from dealing with cryptocurrencies, while easing some of the rules the country had on cryptocurrency ownership. While cryptos like bitcoin still can’t be used as a payment method in the country and there are limits to the amount people can hold, ICOs and cryptocurrency wallets are now allowed in the country.

Cryptocurrency mining has reportedly also been given the green light. Late last year, Iran’s Deputy for Management Development and Resources Alireza Daliri publicly signaled his government’s support to develop and use blockchain platforms, for both public and private uses.

 

https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2019/02/iran-launches-gold-backed-cryptocurrency-paymon/

[Butifldrm]

IRAN PRESENTED NATIONAL STABLECOIN PAYMON

Iranian government is not going to put up with American sanctions. It seems that the state’s government thought a way out of trouble. Political team of a Persian country relies on blockchain, it is intended to use it to resist US influence on international financial world. 
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani supported issue of a stablecoin. Gold-backed stablecoin was presented on January, 30th. Stablecoin is called PayMon (it means “agreement” in Persian) was developed by Kuknos. This Iranian company is specialized in tokenization of various types of assets.
To ensure appropriate functioning of a stablecoin as a national currency, the government concluded agreements with several major banks of the country, among which there are Bank Mellat, Bank Melli Iran, Bank Pasargad, and Parsian Bank. It is expected that the crypto real will be listed on Iranian exchange Fara Bourse where it will be possible to make operations with a new digital currency.

https://icobrothers.media/2019/02/03/iran-presented-national-stablecoin-paymon/

[Butifldrm]

Gold-backed cryptocurrency 'PayMon' launched in Iran

Monday 4 February 2019 | 10:48 AM CET

 

 

The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched ‘PayMon’, a gold-backed cryptocurrency, in cooperation with four local banks and the Ghoghnoos Company.

 

As per the Financial Tribune, the four banks are: the Parsian Bank, the Bank Pasargad, Bank Melli Iran, and Bank Mellat. Moreover, an over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency exchange named Iran Fara Bourse is expected to adopt the cryptocurrency, as well.

Ghoghnoos revealed that the PayMon was meant to tokenize the financial institutions’ assets and properties. The company continued that the initial plan is to issue a total of one billion PayMon tokens. The move comes months after international sanctions started crippling the country’s economy by forcing payment networks from offering services to its institutions.

https://www.thepaypers.com/cryptocurrencies-bitcoin-virtual-currencies/gold-backed-cryptocurrency-paymon-launched-in-iran/777226-39

[Butifldrm]

Iran Finally Launched Gold Backed Cryptocurrency

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 Babatunde Modupe

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February 3, 2019

Last Updated: February 3, 2019 at 5:18 PM EST

 

 

Iran has finally launched its cryptocurrency after much speculation. The stable coin known as PayMon which was launched purposely to bypass economic sanctions from the united states was launched recently as reported by Financial Tribune.

The Iran National Stablecoin

The new Iran national cryptocurrency that is launched, PayMon is to see deployment as a tool by the country to fight the effect of economic sanctions on the country. As reported in recent time, the cryptocurrency was scheduled to be launched during the electronic banking and payment systems conference that started on the 29th of January. The report noted that the crypto would be launched in two phases, firstly as a tool to facilitate interbank payment and later as a tool for conducting transactions.

The new cryptocurrency, a stable coin, ‘PayMon’ means covenant in Persia and is being developed together with a local fintech firm Kuknos. The crypto has seen partnerships with some local crypto exchange in the country such as Bank Mellat, Bank Melli Iran, Bank Pasargad, and Persian Bank. Also, it is likely to be deployed as an alternative to SWIFT international transfer platform which has functioned as a tool for the united states to effect economic sanctions on the country in recent time. Such type of sanctions led to hyperinflation in the economy of the country last year.

Meanwhile, the news of the new cryptocurrency also came along with the news of lifting of the ban on the use of Bitcoin and initial coin offering ICO by the central bank of Iran.

National Crypto Adoption and Success

Iran is not the first country to launch national cryptocurrency. However, the goal of the launching is similar to the goal of the country that has launched it in the past which is to fight economic sanctions and salvage the economy. Venezuela petro which was launched last year by Nicholas Maduro to combat economic sanctions and salvage the crippling economic situation of the country has been a failure since the launch. The crypto has faced sanctions from the united states and bills also initiated to cripple its function.

Recently, the US treasury and financial crime arm FinCEN issued to Iran against the ‘illicit’ use of cryptocurrency. This could be termed more like the use of cryptocurrency to evade US economic sanctions. The success of Iran’s national cryptocurrency cannot be determined yet until it is fully implemented and proven. However, sanctions are still likely to come from the US.

https://www.btcnn.com/cryptocurrency-news/iran-finally-launched-gold-backed-cryptocurrency/

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Trump Declaration of the survival of its forces in Iraq to monitor Iran .. Unites political elites under the title of "rejection"

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - US President Donald Trump's speech on Sunday (February 3, 2019) called for the United States to maintain a military presence in Iraq, so that it could monitor Iran, angry reactions from political forces. An outspoken occupation of the country, where demanded Iraqi MPs, the abolition of the strategic agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington.

Trump's statement and reactions, one day after the leadership of the popular mobilization in Ninewa, prevented US forces from conducting a field tour of a district of Mosul.

 The President of the coalition of victory Haider Abadi, Monday, February 4, 2019 that the use of US bases to confront neighboring countries with Iraq, contrary to the Iraqi constitution, rejecting statements by President Donald Trump, which was reported by the media, last Sunday, US forces in Iraq is to monitor Iran.

"The US presence in Iraq was carried out by an Iraqi decision and at the request of his government to cooperate in the face of the threat of terrorism," President Barham Salih said during a meeting with Rafidain.

"The House of Representatives has received a request from 55 deputies to legislate the law to remove foreign forces from Iraq," said Speaker of Parliament Mohammed Halboussi, adding that "the issuance of any law to remove foreign forces from Iraq requires a position from the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Adel Abdul Mahdi, where the request will be directed to Abdul Mahdi to attend the parliament, to detect the number of foreign troops in the country and the role played by.

"We strongly reject that Iraq is an arena for the liquidation of regional and international accounts, or the launching of the surveillance of neighboring countries or provocation or encroachment on them," said the head of the coalition of reform and reconstruction Ammar al-Hakim, a tweet on his official Twitter site monitored by the "obelisk," adding that " Which states that the rejection of Iraq as a threat to the security and stability of the region and the world, we consider the directions to make our land a starting point to get rid of neighboring countries a threat to our national interests and our security, and Iraq will not allow it.

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Iraqis respond to Trump's provocation by using their country as a "spy" on Iran: Why is the government silent on insult?

The Secretary General of the Movement of Asaib Ahl al-Haq Qais al-Khazali, Monday, that the US military presence and the words of US President Donald Trump, revealed his true face is not to help Iraq, but to secure the Israeli entity, indicating that the American armies if it came to Iraq, we are ready for them.

"The new mission of the US Army according to Trump has become clear, and the Iraqi resistance factions have long understood the hostile intentions of the United States," military spokesman Jafar al-Husseini told a news briefing.

"If Washington decides to attack Syria and Iran from Iraqi territory, we will cut its hand, and US President Donald Trump can not think of attacking Iran from Iraqi territory," Husseini said.

For his part, Hassan Salem, a member of the Fatah Alliance, called on parliament to "accelerate the legislation of the law to remove foreign troops from Iraq," surprised by the silence of the government about what he called "American recklessness."

"We will not allow America to use Iraq to monitor or attack neighboring countries," he said, adding that "the majority of Iraqi political forces demand the withdrawal of US troops from the country."

The first deputy speaker of parliament, Hassan al-Kaabi: "Once again Trump exceeds the legal and constitutional custom of the Iraqi state after his previous visit to the base of Ain al-Assad, where he came to us today another provocation statement confirms the survival of US troops inside the country to aggression on a neighboring country," stressing that " Everyone is responsible for the urgent action to end the American presence and not to allow Iraq to be a launching pad for aggression or control of any country. "

Al-Kaabi confirmed that the House of Representatives will work during the next legislative term to enact a law that includes the termination of the security agreement with America, as well as ending the presence of trainers and advisers American and foreign military in Iraqi territory.

Trump's surprise visit to Iraq last December 26, without meeting any of Baghdad's officials, triggered the wrath of political forces that saw it as a violation of diplomatic norms, Iraqi sovereignty, and an act of superiority.

US President Donald Trump said earlier he supported the survival of his country's troops in Iraq, pointing out that the aim was to monitor Iran, which seeks to acquire nuclear weapons.

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Communist Party: Trump's statement of veto of the Strategic Framework Agreement

12:56 - 04/02/2019

 

  

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Secretary of the Central Committee of the Iraqi Communist Party (MPC), Raed Fahmi, said on Monday that US President Donald Trump's comments on the survival of his forces in Iraq against Iran were a clear violation of the strategic framework agreement with Iraq.

Fahmy said in a statement that the strategic framework agreement states that there are no US military bases in Iraq, as well as the non-threat of any neighboring country through Iraq, which is contrary to Trump, who confirmed the presence of military bases in Iraq and his intention to use to monitor neighbor Iran ".

"These statements are very disturbing, a clear violation of the strategic framework agreement with Iraq and the parliament and the government to seriously re-evaluate them in order to prevent the slide of Iraq in a regional crisis."

Fahmy pointed out that "all blocs reject the US presence in Iraq," calling on the government to "set a clear timetable in order to dispense with military experts and foreign advisers from security institutions." Ending / 25 d

https://www.almaalomah.com/2019/02/04/387028/

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Saleh is awaiting clarification from the United States and responds to Trump's comments on Iran's monitoring of Iraq

 

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(Reuters) - Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said on Monday that Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi was in the process of achieving his government's program, while acknowledging the difficulty of eradicating terrorism in the country and the region.

"The military defeat of Da'ash and the formation of a new government in Baghdad may represent a turning point not only for Iraq, but for the region," Saleh said in a speech during the start of the 2019 International Conference of the Rafidain.

"There is an opportunity to push the country towards stability and this requires political and economic changes in the country. It also requires an end to the crises suffered by Iraq and the Iraqis and the reorganization of the current political system," he said.

Saleh said that "Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, the owner of a government program looks forward to the implementation of structural economic reforms."

"There is great hope that the new government will be able to meet the demands in its program and the provision of services," he said, calling on the political forces to support Abdul-Mahdi in the task entrusted to him.

"It is time for this region to share the goal of eradicating terrorism and eradicating it, and not to have the opportunity to return it. This will not be easy," he said.

On the latest comments by US President Donald Trump, Saleh said the latter "did not ask permission from Iraq for a US military presence to monitor Iran."

"We are waiting for clarification from Washington on the numbers of US troops and their mission," he said, adding that "US forces are in Iraq under an agreement between the two countries."

US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he wanted to keep the military presence of his country's troops in Iraq to "monitor Iran."

"I want to keep the military presence in Iraq to monitor Iran," Trump said in an interview with CBS television. He said he planned to keep a small number of troops, especially intelligence, in Afghanistan.

 

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Halabousi: Iraq still needs the efforts of the international community in combating terrorism

 

Monday, February 4

 

 

 

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters  ) - Iraq still needs the international community's efforts to combat terrorism, parliament speaker Mohamed Halboussi said Monday.  "Iraq still needs the efforts of the international community to combat terrorism, to fulfill its obligations to Iraq and to support his government," Halboussi said in a statement to Alsumaria News.  On February 3, 2018, US President Donald Trump revealed his intention to keep his country's troops in Iraq, pointing out that the aim was to monitor Iran.