{"id":114392,"date":"2026-05-14T23:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114392\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:06:12","slug":"kdp-leader-kurdish-pm-welcome-iraqs-new-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114392\/","title":{"rendered":"KDP leader, Kurdish PM welcome Iraq\u2019s new government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-05-14T22:52:38+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq<br \/>\nNews- Erbil<\/p>\n<p>Kurdistan<br \/>\nDemocratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani on Thursday, congratulated Iraq\u2019s<br \/>\nnew Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi after Parliament granted confidence to his<br \/>\ngovernment, wishing him success in leading the country during a phone call.<\/p>\n<p>Kurdistan<br \/>\nRegion Prime Minister Masrour Barzani also welcomed the confidence vote,<br \/>\nexpressing hope that the new government would open \u201ca new phase of stability<br \/>\nand peace in Iraq,\u201d while advancing constitutional implementation and improving<br \/>\nties between Baghdad and Erbil.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today,<br \/>\nIraq\u2019s Parliament <a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraq-s-cabinet-ministers-take-constitutional-oath-after-confidence-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">approved<\/a> al-Zaidi\u2019s cabinet and ministerial program, granting<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraqi-Parliament-confirms-cabinet-nominees-by-overwhelming-majority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">confidence<\/a> to 14 ministers while postponing votes on six portfolios, including<br \/>\nthe interior and higher education ministries, following objections to several<br \/>\nnominees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-05-14T22:52:38+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Erbil Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) leader Masoud Barzani&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,152,35792,24400,94,39522,39523,33310,33312],"class_list":{"0":"post-114392","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-breaking","10":"tag-confidence-vote","11":"tag-government-formation","12":"tag-iraq","13":"tag-kdp-leader","14":"tag-kurdish-pm-welcome-iraqs-new-government","15":"tag-kurdish-prime-minister-masrour-barzani","16":"tag-leader-masoud-barzani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116575442420867144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114392","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=114392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}