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Former CIA Chief Uncomfortable with Iran’s Role in Iraq

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Former CIA chief Michael Hayden said Tuesday he was "uncomfortable" with Iran's growing influence in Iraq, made especially evident by an offensive in Tikrit.

The city, which is the home town of former president Saddam Hussein, is the target of as operation led by Iraqi troops and popular volunteers.

"I am made uncomfortable by the growing Iranian influence in Iraq. I am made uncomfortable by the fact that it looked like a Shia advance against a Sunni town," said Hayden, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency between 2006 and 2009.

"And the proof would be what happens if and when they retake Tikrit ... How the militias act toward the local population," he added, during a roundtable on international intelligence sharing at the New America Foundation.

Hayden said the United States should not be sharing intelligence with the Iranians on Iraq, despite their shared desire to wipe out the "ISIL".

"The Islamic Republic's ultimate objective is different," he explained.
"We are looking for an inclusive government with minority rights and the participation of all the major religious and ethnic groups.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team