During his inaugural visit to the United States, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani encountered scrutiny and faced a sharp rebuke for his perceived “inaction” regarding the fate of Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian researcher reportedly taken hostage by pro-Iran militias in Iraq. Al-Sudani arrived in Washington on Saturday 14 April, and met with United States President Joe Biden and other senior US officials. Sudani assured CNN journalistChristiane Amanpour that his government was dedicated to revealing the fate of Tsurkov, a doctoral student at the Department of Political Scienc…