Via Washington Examiner:
Vice President Joe Biden told Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Iran’s “influence or interference” in Iraq “is very much overstated,” even though attacks in Baghdad attributed to Iran by some locals spiked over November.
“The Vice President again expressed his conviction which you’ve heard him talk about that Iranian influence in Iraq is very much overstated, that the Iraqis do not appreciate outside meddling or interference from anyone, starting with Iran,” a senior administration official told reporters in a briefing on Biden’s trip, adding “that, of course, there was going to be a relationship,” which Biden believes will be “perfectly normal.”