{"id":231317,"date":"2026-08-01T07:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/231317\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T07:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T07:07:09","slug":"nationwide-state-of-alert-ordered-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/231317\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationwide state of alert ordered in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"introtext\">Pars Today \u2013 Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has ordered an increase in the state of readiness at military bases and barracks across the country.&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0);line-height:24px;\">According to Pars Today, citing IRIB News,\u00a0Sabah al-Nouman, spokesperson for the Commander-in-Chief of Iraq\u2019s Armed Forces, announced that\u00a0Ali Falih al-Zaidi, the prime minister and commander-in-chief, had ordered all military bases and barracks to raise their alert and preparedness levels.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0);line-height:24px;\">Al-Nouman added that the commander-in-chief had also emphasized the implementation of preventive intelligence measures to thwart any potential attacks or infiltration attempts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0);line-height:24px;\">The Iraqi Armed Forces spokesperson further announced that al-Zaidi had ordered the acceleration of programs to equip and arm radar systems, early-warning detection systems, and air-defense systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0);line-height:24px;\">These measures come after joint Saudi-American strikes early Wednesday targeted positions belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) in several Iraqi areas, including Basra, Wasit, Kirkuk, and Diyala provinces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0);line-height:24px;\">The attacks were carried out under the pretext of alleged drone attacks on oil facilities in eastern Saudi Arabia, a claim that Iraq\u2019s Islamic Resistance groups had previously rejected, denying that any attacks against other countries, including Saudi Arabia, had been launched from Iraqi territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pars Today \u2013 Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces has ordered an increase in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[22335,94,12426],"class_list":["post-231317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-arabia","tag-iraq","tag-saudi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117018993856587035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231317","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=231317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}