Iraq’s political shift

Dozens of members of Iraq’s parliament were sworn in last week to replace those who had walked out en masse last month. The walk-out was in protest to deadlocked negotiations over forming a new government. And it allowed a party backed by Iran to take over power of the parliament. Andrew Peek, former deputy assistant secretary of Iraq and Iran, tells host Carol Hills this shift is “cataclysmic” in modern Iraqi politics.

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