You’re pretty isolated as a Shia Prime Minister of Iraq if the Iraqi Kurds, the Iraqi Sunni Arabs, the US and Iran all say you’re done. There’s been extreme concern that former-kinda-still Prime Minister Maliki might try to use the military to hold on to power. Now he’s telling the army to keep out of politics and let the parliamentary crisis find a political endgame.
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