{"id":224626,"date":"2026-07-27T11:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/224626\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T11:43:10","slug":"iraqi-pm-to-visit-saudi-arabia-this-week-following-turkeys-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/224626\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi PM to visit Saudi Arabia this week following Turkey&#8217;s trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia on Thursday for an official visit, following a diplomatic stop in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trip is part of a larger regional diplomatic tour aiming to maintain regional balance and strengthen Iraq\u2019s business connections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prime minister recently conducted high-level diplomatic visits to the United States on July 13 and Iran on July 23.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several memoranda of understanding covering a wide range of economic and development sectors are expected to be signed during Al-Zaidi\u2019s trip to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The agreements are expected to increase Saudi investments in Iraq and strengthen economic cooperation in different sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Zaidi will have high-level bilateral discussions with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other top Saudi officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The discussions will largely focus on security cooperation, counterterrorism, and minimizing the economic shocks resulting from ongoing regional crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Zaidi\u2019s trip to Saudi Arabia will prioritize growing economic relationships, strengthening security collaboration, and maintaining regional neutrality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) \u2013 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi is scheduled to fly to Saudi Arabia on Thursday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[11542,6940,21193,34,94,587,50,64299,21632,1690,1176],"class_list":["post-224626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-ankara","tag-counterterrorism","tag-economic-cooperation","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-riyadh","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-investments","tag-security-cooperation","tag-the-united-states","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116991767529907361","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224626","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=224626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}