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'Acute risk' that Iraq could become once again victim of internal conflict as Iran war progresses
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Speaking with FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade, Zaid Al-Ali, Visiting Fellow at Princeton University and Former UN Advisor in Iraq, explains that until the war in Iran broke out, Iraq had been able to "straddle between US-aligned interests and Iranian-aligned interests" but there's an "acute risk" that it will become the victim of internal conflict once again as the war progresses.