Trump Shares Big Update On Iran War

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The Atlantic Council’s Victoria Taylor, who is in charge of the Iraq Initiative, said that al-Zaidi has been called the “Trump of the Middle East” because he has a business background and no political experience.

“When you value business success, I think then it’s very appealing to look at an Iraqi prime minister who is likely a billionaire and can be really pointed to as a political outsider,” she said.

But Taylor added that “the reality is much more complicated,” noting that al-Zaidi was chosen by the current political infrastructure in Iraq and will be “beholden in some way to that system.”

“I’m not always sure that there’s a full appreciation of the challenge that this prime minister will face in actually trying to really dismantle core parts of the political system,” she said.

Taylor noted the obstacles that al-Zaidi will face as he tries to disarm the Iran-backed militias or challenge political corruption.