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Iraqi Prime Minister\u00a0Haider al-Abadi<\/a>\u00a0is set to meet Iran’s leaders for talks on regional security, including the future of Iraq’s Kurdish region and the role of the Tehran-backed\u00a0Shia<\/a>\u00a0militias in his country.<\/p>\n Abadi’s meeting on Thursday with Iran’s President\u00a0Hassan Rouhani<\/a>\u00a0marks his second visit to Tehran in four months, highlighting his effort to rally support behind the central government in Baghdad.<\/p>\n There was no confirmation if Abadi will also meet Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, although analysts said it would be likely.<\/p>\n The trip follows his visit on Wednesday to\u00a0Turkey<\/a>, where he met President\u00a0Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a>\u00a0and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, and reaffirmed their stance against the Kurdish independence vote.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/10\/iraq-abadi-heads-iran-regional-security-talks-171025145541045.html Iraqi Prime Minister\u00a0Haider al-Abadi\u00a0is set to meet Iran’s leaders for talks on regional security, including the future of Iraq’s Kurdish region and the role of the Tehran-backed\u00a0Shia\u00a0militias in his country. Abadi’s meeting on Thursday with Iran’s President\u00a0Hassan Rouhani\u00a0marks his second visit to Tehran in four months, highlighting his effort to rally support behind the central government in Baghdad. There… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":909,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}