With U.S. Backing, Iraq Pushes for Energy Rapprochement With Saudis

The Trump administration is urging Iraq to proceed with a job to link its power grid with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states, amongst steps to cut down Baghdad’s longstanding dependency on Iranian strength, U.S. and Arab officials stated.

The grid-link enterprise has been the matter of intensive consultations in the latest months and was talked over in the course of Iraqi Primary Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi’s take a look at to Washington very last 7 days.  

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