Maliki met later Wednesday with US lawmakers in a bid to persuade them to approve the arms deals, a day after a group of US senators accused him in a letter to Obama of contributing to an alarming slide back into a sectarian war.
Representative Ed Royce, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, said after Wednesday’s talks on Capitol Hill that they had discussed “a range of critical issues” including Iran and the September attack on a camp in Iraq, housing members of an Iranian opposition group.
“I urged the prime minister to do more to reconcile with his political opponents on key issues in order to marginalize the terrorists and militants who threaten to draw Iraq into another deadly civil war by exploiting these disagreements,” Royce said in a statement.
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