{"id":113249,"date":"2026-05-14T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113249\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:17:07","slug":"iraq-closes-green-zone-ahead-of-cabinet-confidence-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/113249\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq closes Green Zone ahead of cabinet confidence vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News-
\nBaghdad<\/p>\n

Iraqi
\nauthorities have ordered the closure of the Green Zone \u2014the fortified central
\nBaghdad district housing parliament and key government offices\u2014 ahead of
\nThursday’s confidence vote on the cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Ali
\nAl-Zaidi.<\/p>\n

A security source
\ntold Shafaq News that the closure covers access from Baghdad Airport Road, with
\nentry restricted to badge holders. It is set to take effect after midday, with
\nthe zone remaining open at the time of reporting.<\/p>\n

The Council of
\nRepresentatives is scheduled to convene at 5:00 p.m. (GMT\/UTC: 2:00 p.m.) to
\nvote<\/a> on Al-Zaidi’s ministerial cabinet. Al-Zaidi was tasked by the President
\nwith forming the government on April 27, 2026, succeeding Mohammed Shia
\nAl-Sudani.<\/p>\n

Read more: Ali al-Zaidi named Iraq’s prime minister: Easy nomination, harder road ahead<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-14T08:37:58+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraqi authorities have ordered the closure of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,39245,152,94,39244],"class_list":{"0":"post-113249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iraq","8":"tag-ali-al-zaidi","9":"tag-baghdads-green-zone","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-iraq","12":"tag-iraq-closes-green-zone-ahead-of-cabinet-confidence-vote"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116572182485058938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249","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=113249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}