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Former aide says Tony Blair was pressured by Murdoch not to delay Iraq invasion

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch allegedly telephoned then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair on March 11, 2003 — eight days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq — and urged him not to do anything that could delay the start of the conflict. The allegation appears in the diaries of Blair’s former communications…