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Reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi threatened to resign are \u201ccompletely untrue\u201d and intended to weaken his position, a senior government source told Shafaq News on Friday.<\/p>\n
Al-Zaidi is facing several obstacles \u2013some genuine and some manufactured by \u201cbrokers and thieves\u201d\u2013 including challenges related to financial and administrative corruption.<\/p>\n
Several reports had cited unnamed political sources alleging that the prime minister threatened to step down because his demands were not being addressed. Among them, Al Araby TV quoted a source from the Shiite Coordination Framework, parliament\u2019s largest bloc that nominated Al-Zaidi, linking the alleged dispute to armed factions\u2019 refusal to surrender their weapons.<\/p>\n
Under Al-Zaidi\u2019s Dawn Crackdown anti-corruption campaign, Iraqi authorities detained 31<\/a> officials, employees, contractors, and other suspects across seven cases between July 20 and 26. His government has also set September 30 as the deadline for bringing weapons outside state institutions under government control.<\/p>\n Read more: <\/a>Iraq’s September deadline undercuts armed factions’ case for weapons<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-31T12:09:29+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Reports that Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[30690,152,94,11495,65371],"class_list":["post-230500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-ali-al-zaidi","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-resignation","tag-source-iraq-pm-resignation-reports-are-false"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117014613659911194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230500","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=230500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}