Barham Salih
As per two Iraqi government sources, the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Iraq’s President Barham Salih held a telephonic conversation in the mid of September 2020. In the call Pompeo discussed about bringing back US diplomats from Iraq followed by a threat to shut down the US Embassy in Iraq. Iraqi authorities feared the withdrawal of diplomat(s) would lead to military confrontation with Iran, whom the United States blamed for missile and bomb attacks.