MANILA — The repatriation of Filipinos from Iraq will continue even as the United States and Iran have called it even following missile strikes there, a member of President Rodrigo Duterte's Cabinet overseeing the evacuation said Thursday.
"Sometimes there are some instances of a very surprise missile attack and they have the option to press the trigger and while we just anticipate things. We have to be ready in case there are incidents," added Cimatu, a former military chief and special envoy to the Middle East who in 2004 secured the release of a Filipino hostage in Iraq.
Filipinos can only stay for 3 days in transit points before they have to fly elsewhere, arrangements for which were made with Philippine airline companies, said Cimatu. Washington and Tehran "are so mobilized in Iraq, which has become such symbolic terrain for hitting out at the other," said Erica Gaston of the New America Foundation.
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