Chevron evacuates American oil workers from Iraq as a ‘precautionary measure’

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Oil giant Chevron has pulled all of its American oil workers from Iraq in response to potential military escalation between the United States and Iran.

The company told CNN on Monday that the move, which followed the drone attack that killed Qassem Soleimani, was a “precautionary measure” and that its American employees and contractors have been evacuated from the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq “for the time being.”

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