translated from Spanish: Seeks to solve conflict in Middle East after visit of POMPEO

Baghdad, Iraq.-The Iraqi government today expressed its desire to “settle all the differences” in the Middle East region following the surprise visit of U.S. secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, last night to Baghdad amid new Iranian demands on States United States. The Iraqi Prime minister, Adel Abdelmahdi, highlighted in a statement “The importance of solving all the differences through honest dialogue”, and commended Iraq for returning to “play a major role in the area”, as “Baghdad becomes a point of Encounter of all and not in one of conflict and confrontation. ” These statements occur after Abdelmahdi met with Pompeo last night, who cancelled his planned visit to Germany yesterday to go to Baghdad. The note also notes that “the U.S. is a strategic partner for Iraq. Iraq continues with its balanced policy that establishes bridges of friendship and cooperation with all friends and neighbors, including Iran. ” Baghdad is a leading political and commercial partner in Iran, and has already assured in the past that it would not change its relationship with the neighboring country, whose Shia government supports the Iraqi, influenced by groups in this branch of Islam.

Pompeo told reporters on the plane back to London, where it is today, that “the United States will defend its interests wherever we are and always”, according to statements released by the U.S. Department of Defense. Regarding his visit to Iraq, he asserted that they have sent “messages to the Iranians” and hopes that “they will put us in a position where we can dissuade them and the Iranians will think twice before attacking American interests.”

He noted, moreover, that the “attacks” of the Iranians were “imminent, ie, were attacks that were going to happen quite soon (…) We have taken all the measures we can to deter them. Other than that, I can’t say anything else, “says the note. This scenario occurs at a time when the United States has announced the imposition of new sanctions on Tehran. Iran today announced that it reduces its commitments to the nuclear agreement of 2015 and gives a deadline of 60 days to the rest of the signatories of the pact to birthday An with their demands, just one year after the United States abandoned the so-called comprehensive Joint Action Plan (JCPOA), initialled also by Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and Germany. 



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