{"id":116550,"date":"2026-05-16T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116550\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T11:29:13","slug":"india-and-iraq-strengthening-bilateral-ties-under-new-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/116550\/","title":{"rendered":"India and Iraq: Strengthening Bilateral Ties Under New Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended his heartfelt congratulations to Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaidi for assuming the role of Iraq&#8217;s prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>Modi highlighted the significance of the longstanding friendship between India and Iraq, expressing a strong commitment to further bolstering their diplomatic relations. Al-Zaidi, known for his business acumen, emerged as a consensus choice following intense negotiations among Iraq&#8217;s Coordination Framework.<\/p>\n<p>In recent developments, Iraq&#8217;s Parliament has officially approved a portion of al-Zaidi&#8217;s Cabinet lineup along with his government programme, marking a significant step in the country\u2019s political landscape.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended his heartfelt congratulations to Ali Falih Kadhim al-Zaidi for assuming the role&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[40073,11598,16607,8090,39489,138,94,3636,3897,1679],"class_list":["post-116550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-ali-falih-kadhim-al-zaidi","tag-bilateral-relations","tag-cabinet","tag-coordination-framework","tag-government-programme","tag-india","tag-iraq","tag-narendra-modi","tag-parliament","tag-prime-minister"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116584026234408345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116550","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=116550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}