{"id":257845,"date":"2026-08-20T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257845\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T15:08:09","slug":"iraqi-speaker-responds-to-irans-ghalibaf-with-different-gulf-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/257845\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi speaker responds to Iran\u2019s Ghalibaf with different Gulf map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 August 2026 17:29<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Iraqi Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi posted a photo showing a map in the background labelled the \u201cArabian Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Social media users and regional observers viewed the post as a symbolic response to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/caliber.az\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Caliber.Az<\/a> reports, <a style=\"color: rgb(53, 152, 219);\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aawsat_News\/status\/2090411285615608273?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">citing<\/a> Arabic media.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AC_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D8%A8%D9%8A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#\u0627\u0644\u062e\u0644\u064a\u062c_\u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K5VyYudX6Y\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/K5VyYudX6Y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0647\u064a\u0628\u062a \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0644\u0628\u0648\u0633\u064a (@HaibetHalbousi) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HaibetHalbousi\/status\/2090381180688331024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 20, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A day earlier, the Iranian speaker had shared a photo of himself standing in front of a map labelled the \u201cPersian Gulf.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nfPfY1L9Y7\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/nfPfY1L9Y7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0645\u062d\u0645\u062f\u0628\u0627\u0642\u0631 \u0642\u0627\u0644\u06cc\u0628\u0627\u0641 | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mb_ghalibaf\/status\/2090130205415292987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 19, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The indirect dispute over the name of the body of water came less than 24 hours after the two politicians met in Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By Jeyhun Aghazada<\/p>\n<p>Caliber.Az<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the key topics in this news story.<\/p>\n<p>Views: 144<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20 August 2026 17:29 Iraqi Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi posted a photo showing a map in the background&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[26],"tags":[282,288,287,283,286,281,285,284,280,39],"class_list":["post-257845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-persian-gulf","tag-analysis-of-azerbaijan","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-important-news-of-azerbaijan","tag-international-experts","tag-interviews","tag-interviews-with-azerbaijani-analysts","tag-news-from-baku","tag-news-of-azerbaijan","tag-persian-gulf"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117128469191724118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257845","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=257845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}