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Iraq’s New Prime Minister Faces Immediate Test Over Iran and the U.S.
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May 12, 2026 · 1 min listen
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Iraq may soon have a new prime minister as the Coordination Framework, Iraq’s largest parliamentary bloc and a coalition of Shia Arab political forces, nominated businessman Ali al-Zaidi for the post, hoping to break a deadlock between caretaker prime minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani and former prime minister Nouri Al-Maliki, who was previously nominated for the post. U.S. president Donald Trump spoke to Zaidi and pronounced himself satisfied: “With our help, he won, and we want him to do very well.” Trump may have felt…
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