http://www.wbbm780.com/pages/71390.php?contentType=4&contentId=191277US: Iraq Government Almost Out Of Time
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But in an exclusive interview with CBS News, the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, said he sees a perverse sort of progress.
"I see indications that both sides believe that a balance of terror has been established," Khalilzad told CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann. "They have demonstrated to each other that they can inflict pain on each other, and neither can get rid of the other."
That "balance of terror" led to record levels of violence in Iraq last month – with nearly 3500 Iraqis dying violently – and that was a trend that continued Saturday.
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Khalilzad said Maliki may be running out of time to change course.
"I think he has another three or four months to reverse this most important issue, the sectarian violence," he said.
The U.S. ambassador does see one government that is working in Iraq.
"There are Iranian agents in this country," he told Strassmann. "What I mean is that there are people from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards – 'Parasan' as they call it. There are people associated with Iran's intelligence agency."