<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The UK considered sending asylum-seekers to Iraq for processing, new documents have shown.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Iraq is considered very dangerous, with the UK government advising against all travel to the country.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But a plan similar to the Rwanda scheme to process migrants in a third-party country was floated at one stage by Whitehall officials, with negotiations said to have achieved “good recent progress.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The UK has struck a returns agreement with Baghdad for Iraqi citizens, which was achieved without a formal announcement or acknowledgement and a plea for “discretion,” the documents, seen by Sky News, suggest.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The cache of papers casts new light on the UK government’s approach to dealing with asylum-seekers and illegal migration, including a desire to improve relations with the Iranian Embassy in London in order to ease the repatriation of Iranian citizens, and moves to establish return agreements with Eritrea and Ethiopia. According to Arab News&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">bnbd/fas</div><div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div>