{"id":106263,"date":"2026-05-10T07:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106263\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:49:25","slug":"iraq-maintains-no-comment-stance-on-reported-israeli-desert-installation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/106263\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Maintains &#8216;No Comment&#8217; Stance on Reported Israeli Desert Installation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERBIL (Kurdistan24) &#8211; The Iraqi government told Kurdistan24 on Sunday that reports alleging the establishment of a secret Israeli military base in the country&#8217;s desert regions remain unconfirmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabah al-Numan, the spokesperson for the Iraqi Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, clarified that authorities have not issued any official findings regarding the claims recently published by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Numan emphasized that the information cited in the American newspaper is specific to that publication, noting that the government is unaware of the report&#8217;s underlying sources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to remarks to Kurdistan24, officials stated that the presence of such an installation has not been verified by national security agencies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Authorities indicated that the state is maintaining its &#8216;no comment&#8217; position on the matter, as the information remains unverified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have not previously issued any official statement regarding this matter. The information published by The Wall Street Journal is specific to them; we do not know what their source is, and it has not been confirmed to us as of yet,&#8221; Numan told Kurdistan24<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is a developing story and more information is expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERBIL (Kurdistan24) &#8211; The Iraqi government told Kurdistan24 on Sunday that reports alleging the establishment of a secret&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[94,36750,11350,7589],"class_list":["post-106263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-iraq","tag-israeli-base","tag-sabah-al-numan","tag-wsj"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116549187530076601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}