{"id":276963,"date":"2026-09-03T17:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/276963\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T17:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T17:48:10","slug":"foreign-minister-tells-new-us-envoy-iraq-remains-committed-to-weapons-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/276963\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign minister tells new US envoy Iraq remains committed to weapons policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD \u2014 Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told the incoming U.S. charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires that Iraq remains committed to bringing weapons under state control, in their first meeting since <a href=\"https:\/\/en.964media.com\/51990\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Fagin returned to Baghdad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The two discussed Iraqi-U.S. relations and political, security and economic developments in Iraq and the region, Hussein said in a post. He said the government is moving toward restricting weapons to state institutions while also working to strengthen Iraq\u2019s regional relationships.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting comes days after Harakat al-Nujaba leader Akram al-Kaabi threatened to target any U.S. troops remaining in Iraq after Sept. 30, and after Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada set 10 conditions for any handover including the withdrawal of American and Turkish forces. Kataib Hezbollah also refuses while U.S. forces remain.<\/p>\n<p>The State Administration Coalition has said armed activity outside state authority after Sept. 30 could be handled under the Anti-Terrorism Law, though officials have said they are pursuing a negotiated process. Security adviser Qasim al-Araji has said the date relates to the coalition withdrawal and marks the start of a new phase of talks rather than a deadline for surrendering weapons, and that the Popular Mobilization Forces Commission could receive weapons transferred by factions. A Coordination Framework committee of Hadi al-Amiri, former Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Nouri al-Maliki has been working on the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAGHDAD \u2014 Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein told the incoming U.S. charg\u00e9 d\u2019affaires that Iraq remains committed to bringing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[8849,592,5396,3888,94,4100,3759,894,596,180],"class_list":["post-276963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-after","tag-and","tag-forces","tag-has","tag-iraq","tag-minister","tag-said","tag-state","tag-the","tag-weapons"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117208370865090626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276963","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=276963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}