{"id":32301,"date":"2026-06-08T12:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=32301"},"modified":"2026-06-08T12:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:54:27","slug":"thom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=32301","title":{"rendered":"Thom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">Thom &#8211; Dinar Guru<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<strong>Iraq has a new government.\u00a0<u>It&#8217;s functional but incomplete, and the hardest decisions are still\u00a0 unresolved<\/u><\/strong><u>.<\/u>..What&#8217;s still unresolved: Nine ministries remain unfilled\u00a0 including\u00a0 Defense, Interior, Planning, Culture, Higher\u00a0Education, Labor, Migration, Housing, and Youth.\u00a0<strong><u>\u00a0Defense and Interior are the two that matter most\u00a0<\/u>because they control the\u00a0security apparatus and are directly tied to the weapons disarmament push.\u00a0<\/strong>Washington refused to resume transfer of certain dollar\u00a0assets to Iraq while pressuring Baghdad not to seat affiliates of Iran-backed militia groups in cabinet posts&#8230;<u><strong>Who fills Defense\u00a0and Interior will signal more about this government&#8217;s actual direction than any written policy commitment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thom &#8211; Dinar Guru\u00a0\u00a0Iraq has a new government.\u00a0It&#8217;s functional but incomplete, and the hardest decisions are still\u00a0 unresolved&#8230;What&#8217;s still unresolved: Nine ministries remain unfilled\u00a0 including\u00a0 Defense, Interior, Planning, Culture, Higher\u00a0Education, Labor, Migration, Housing, and Youth.\u00a0\u00a0Defense and Interior are the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=32301\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gMgY-8oZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32302,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32301\/revisions\/32302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}