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No oil, no salary: Iraqi state employees are feeling the crunch of the Hormuz blockade

Because of the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz, Iraq cannot export enough oil to fund the country's huge public sector. Protests have already started. Will the Iran war destabilize Iraq again?

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