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Regarding the issue of weapons, no step will be taken until the Baghdad and Erbil governments reach the conclusion that this poses a direct threat to their relations with Iran. Nor will any action be taken until the Kurdistan Regional Government comes to understand that removing Iranian Kurdish separatist groups from the territory of the Kurdistan Region will not constitute a threat to the regional government itself.
Therefore, this remains one of the complex issues in relations between Iraq’s Kurdistan Region and Iran, and it has yet to be resolved.
Can Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s meeting with Donald Trump and his upcoming visit to Iran be linked to these developments?
This could be related to Iraq’s mediation efforts. Iraq has always played a mediating role in disputes involving Iran and other countries. If you recall, in the case of Iran and Saudi Arabia and the disputes and severing of relations that had taken place, Iraq had laid much of the groundwork for resolving the issue, before the two countries decided to go to China to sign an agreement.
In the case of the recent war, Iraq was one of the countries that suffered the greatest impact from the war. Iraq’s oil production, which stood at 3 to 4 million barrels per day before the war, had fallen to 1.6 million barrels per day, according to figures cited by Bloomberg. Therefore, the economic threat to Iraq is always present as the war drags on. Everything Iraq is currently trying to do is either to delay the war or to prevent it from continuing.