The Takeaway: November 13, 2019
![ERBIL, IRAQ - SEPTEMBER 30: Falah Mustafa Bakir a politician from Iraqi Kurdistan and has served as Head of Department of Foreign Relations for Kurdistan Regional Government since 2006 poses for a portrait September 30, 2017 in Erbil, Iraq. (Photo by Younes Mohammad/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2019/11/GettyImages-855999534.jpg/GettyImages-855999534.jpg?h=a7c3ce73&itok=KsNUHUrK)
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