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The prime minister has forcefully rejected Trump’s talk of “taking Iraqi oil.” And the Shiite clerical leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, has taken on Trump over his plan to move the US embassy to Jerusalem.
The pan-Arab London daily al-Hayat (Life) reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi of the Shiite fundamentalist Da’wa (Islamic Call) Party angrily riposted to Donald Trump’s repeated statement that the US should have “taken” Iraq’s petroleum while it was occupying that country. He said yesterday, “We can’t understand what he means. Does he mean that the US should have occupied Iraqi oil in 2003 so that Daesh [ISIS, ISIL] could not gain control over that oil?” He added, “According to the Iraqi constitution, Iraqi petroleum belongs to Iraq.”
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