BAGHDAD — Iraq’s prime minister will travel to Iran and Jordan to seek support for his bid to win a second term more than seven months after national elections, an adviser said Saturday.
Nouri al-Maliki is struggling to remain in power since his Shiite alliance narrowly lost the March 7 vote to a Sunni- backed bloc led by rival Ayad Allawi.
Sunni Arab states such as Jordan have supported Allawi because of his ties to Iraq’s Sunni minority and out of fear that al-Maliki’s Shiite-dominated government was too friendly with Iran.
Al-Maliki adviser Ali al-Moussawi said Saturday that the prime minister will tell Amman and Iran that none of Iraq’s major political constituencies will be excluded from a new government if they back his second term. The Associated Press
