BAGHDAD (AP) — Twenty families who were sent into exile in Iran by Saddam Hussein following a failed uprising returned Thursday to Iraq, another sign of Baghdad’s warming relations with Tehran.Iraq has been delicately balancing its relations with Iran and the U.S. But with U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraq by the end of 2011, the Shiite-dominated government has been working to strengthen relations.- – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]
Twenty families sent to exile in Iran by Saddam return to Iraq
October 8, 2009