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Baghdad has no reason to send forces to Iran amid protests, Iraqi scholar tells Post

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Baghdad has no reason to send forces to Iran amid protests, Iraqi scholar tells Post

According to media outlets, including Iran International, thousands of Iraqi militiamen have already entered Iran to help Tehran crack down on the ongoing protests. “There is no interest or justification for the Iraqi government to send reserve forces to Tehran, nor does Iran need additional reinforcements from Baghdad,” Sheikh Ghaith Al-Tamimi, a prominent Iraqi scholar … Read more

Correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and the Gulf War, has died

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Correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and the Gulf War, has died

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at the age of 91. Arnett, who won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his coverage of the Vietnam War … Read more