{"id":192261,"date":"2026-07-06T08:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/192261\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:12:08","slug":"iraq-reportedly-declares-irgc-quds-force-chief-esmail-qaani-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/192261\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq reportedly declares IRGC Quds Force chief Esmail Qaani &#8216;persona non grata&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Iraqi government has declared Esmail Qaani, commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, persona non grata ahead of the funeral ceremony for former Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, according to political sources, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing the publication <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mc-doualiya.com\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%82-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B7\/20260705-%D9%82%D8%A8%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%84-%D9%85%D9%88%D9%83%D8%A8-%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%8A%D9%8A%D8%B9-%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%86%D8%A6%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%8A%D8%B5%D9%86%D9%81-%D8%A5%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%84-%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A2%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B4%D8%AE%D8%B5%D8%A7-%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8%A8%D9%87\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Monte Carlo Doualiya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the Iraqi authorities have formally communicated the decision to Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that the measure was accompanied by additional restrictions, including a ban on meetings between Iranian officials and members of Iraq&#8217;s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), as well as other local armed groups.<\/p>\n<p>The reported measures come as <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/search?search=iraq\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq<\/a> prepares for an upcoming visit by Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi to the United States, where he is expected to pursue major military and economic agreements with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The Iraqi government has not publicly commented on the reported measures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"by-user\" href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/journalists\/nijat-babayev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">By Nijat Babayev<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iraqi government has declared Esmail Qaani, commander of Iran&#8217;s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, persona&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[13413,34,94,424,57295],"class_list":["post-192261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-esmail-qaani","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-irgc","tag-irgc-quds-force"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116872029408983629","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192261","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=192261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}