Article snippet: MORE on Tuesday said he did not intend to quickly move troops from Iraq in his first lengthy comments about Middle East turbulence following the U.S. air strike that killed a top Iranian military general. The killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani has shaken U.S. allies and complicated U.S. policy in Iraq, where the parliament voted earlier this week in favor of American forces leaving the country. But Trump, who has been a vocal opponent of indefinite U.S. entanglement in foreign conflicts, made clear no such exit was imminent during on-camera remarks in the Oval Office. “Eventually we want to be able to let Iraq run its own affairs, and that’s very important. So at some point we want to get out. But this isn’t the right point,” Trump told reporters during a meeting with the Greek prime minister Tuesday. Trump’s commitment to keeping troops in Iraq for at least the short-term was a moment of clarity amid uncertainty about how the administration might proceed in the face of retaliatory action from Tehran. The president and top administration officials have been adamant that they hope to avoid a full-blown conflict with Iran. But they have said little about the information that led Trump to approve the strike targeting Soleimani, and U.S. allies have expressed unease about the resulting instability in the region. The last few days have been marked with confusion, as Trump threatened strikes on Iranian cultural sites over the weekend should Tehran retaliate with attacks ... Link to the full article to read more