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October 23, 2011

U.S. Pullout May Leave Iraq in Iran's Hands

Nicole Gaouette, Bloomberg

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They will leave behind a U.S. presence in the form of the world's largest embassy, without a large military force’s protection, intelligence, supply chain and transportation. Diplomats will encourage peace and development in a largely Shiite Muslim Iraq that is divided by ethnic and religious tensions and sits on the fault line between Persian Shiite Iran and the Sunni Arab world.

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