By Navid Barani In January in Vatican City, Pope Francis met with the Iraqi president, Barham Salih. The private meeting was held following the American strike on Qassem Soleimani and the Iranians’ strike on the American Ayn Al-Asad airbase in Iraq. The talks lasted just 30 minutes, after which a Vatican statement stressed that to achieve a peaceful solution to the current crises, Iraq’s sovereignty would have to be respected ...