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62% of retail investor accounts lose money when trading spread bets and CFDs with this provider. I'm John Baxter, Bill Rajo, Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

joins me as my colleague and co-host,

and we welcome Bridget Toomey of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

following the Surprise in Baghdad.

A new man in town, the new supremo of the democracy,

is named Ali al-Zady.

Bridget, a very good evening to you.

It is fresh information you provide.

However, I remind myself that I've been taught for more than 25 years

that Iran is very much a dominant opinion in Baghdad

and that Iran will always be the upper hand

when it comes to decisions of who runs the Baghdad government, who gets the spoils, who is out

of power. Is that still the case or is Ali al-Zadhii a surprise even to Tehran? Good evening to you. Good evening, John.

So I don't think Zadie is a surprise to the Iranian leadership, though he is a surprise to any

outside observer. He comes from, or he was nominated by what's called the coordination framework.

It's a political coalition of Shiite parties in Iraq.

They're aligned with Iran.

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