Fight for Iraqi city of Tikrit draws Tehran and Washington still closer together

By Paul McGeough
Updated March 6 2015 - 11:08pm, first published 10:06pm

Washington: With the White House under growing pressure from Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and its traditional Arab allies to cut Tehran no slack in fraught nuclear talks, the US and Iran are quietly working together against the forces of the so-called Islamic State in Iraq.