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Iran just picked Iraq's next Prime Minister. Bassem Al-Badri is now the Coordination Framework's unified candidate after Nour Al-Maliki stepped aside and endorsed him.
That alone would be notable. But the detail that matters: Esmail Qaani flew to Baghdad and personally backed Al-Badri during the visit.
Tehran doesn't make that kind of trip for nothing.
Iraq's Shia factions are notoriously fractured. Getting them to consolidate behind a single candidate requires either a very long negotiation or a very clear signal from the top.
This looks like the latter.
Al-Maliki doesn't withdraw quietly unless he's been told to. His endorsement of Al-Badri reads less like political generosity and more like instructions received.
The Iraqi parliament will go through the motions. But the real conversation already happened in a room with Qaani.
Source: Al Jazeera
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Iran is about Obama/Clinton.
The oil, global reset, leverage over NATO/China, etc., those were just added bonuses.
This entire military operation in Iran, has been about destroying Iran’s nuclear program, AND proving that the Obama administration is responsible for it.
That’s why Trump repeatedly says the “nuclear dust” is the number one most important thing in negotiations. He doesn’t just want Iran to sign a deal not to make nukes. He wants the Uranium from Fordow, so the US MIL can use nuclear forensics to confirm the origins of all the uranium. US MIL Intelligence knows exactly where it came from, they are just there to confirm what they already know.
Trump is in Iran to gather incontrovertible evidence. Isotopic signatures. Nuclear fingerprints.
This is why all propaganda assets have been deployed, why both the Left and woke-Right squeal so loudly about Iran, and why there is so much disinformation online about the situation in Iran.
Trump is about to secure the smoking gun that will take down the Obama administration, hence why the traitors are in such a panic.
It’s happening, and they know they can’t do anything to stop it.