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September 11, 2012

Iraq Is Moving Away from Iran

Afshin Molavi, The National

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Geopolitical shifts move quietly, like slow-moving tectonic plates. To witness one of the tectonic shifts in today's Middle East, follow the oil - Iraqi oil to be exact.

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