Iraq working hard to find solutions for US-Iran conflict: Iraqi PM

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Tuesday that "neither the United States nor Iran wants war and Iraq is in contact with both", Iraq's state news agency INA reported. The conflict between Washington and Tehran -Baghdad's main allies who are themselves enemies- is a "complex file" that Iraq is working hard to find solutions for, Abdul Mahdi said.

Tensions between Iran and the United States have intensified since Trump pulled out of a 2015 international deal to curb Iran's nuclear activities and imposed increasingly strict sanctions on Tehran. Trump wants to force Tehran to agree to a broader arms control accord and has sent an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Gulf in a show of force against what U.S. officials have said are threats to U.S. troops in the region.