The U.S. administration has two options in Iraq: either to back track Trump's harsh rhetoric on Iran and Iraq and accept to continue the previous U.S. administration's policy of tacit agreement with Iran to keep Iraq out of their confrontation, or to continue the current escalation, which will lead to an inevitable clash in Iraq with a serious destabilizing spill-over for other countries in the region, including Turkey.

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