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Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses the brief and unproductive first session of Iraq’s new parliament, Muqtada al-Sadr’s feud with Nouri al-Maliki, Iran’s considerable influence in Iraqi politics and why US efforts to export democracy often end in disaster.

MP3 here. (16:30)

Jason Ditz is the managing news editor at Antiwar.com.