Embassy of the United States, Baghdad

US Embassy closure in Iraq would hand Tehran a ‘strategic victory,’ says former Iraqi amb to UN

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Feisal al-Istrabadi, the former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations, joins The World’s host Marco Werman to talk about the potential closure of the US Embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

The formal opening of the new US embassy in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, January 5th 2009

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