{"id":33528,"date":"2026-09-21T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33528"},"modified":"2026-09-21T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T18:23:08","slug":"clare-699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33528","title":{"rendered":"Clare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">Clare &#8211; Dinar Guru<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #c23b3b;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Article:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;<em><u>Washington Times<\/u>: Iraq&#8217;s success in controlling weapons makes it an important economic\u00a0center in the Middle East<\/em><\/strong>&#8221; Quote: &#8220;<em><strong><u>Iraq faces one of the most impactful tests in the post-2003 era<\/u><\/strong>..A key obstacle remains the\u00a0continued existence of armed power centers that are not fully under the authority of the Iraqi state&#8230;<strong>No investment worth tens of\u00a0billions of dollars can be sustained without the rule of law, contractual security, and political stability. From this perspective,\u00a0placing all weapons under state control is a prerequisite for rebuilding state authority and establishing a stable economy &#8230;I<u>raq\u00a0has the potential to become a key player in the Middle East\u2019s energy security system<\/u>, but achieving this status requires Baghdad to\u00a0demonstrate its ability to protect its energy resources and pipelines, and, most importantly, to guarantee its economic\u00a0independence.<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clare &#8211; Dinar Guru\u00a0\u00a0Article:\u00a0&#8220;Washington Times: Iraq&#8217;s success in controlling weapons makes it an important economic\u00a0center in the Middle East&#8221; Quote: &#8220;Iraq faces one of the most impactful tests in the post-2003 era..A key obstacle remains the\u00a0continued existence of armed power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/?p=33528\">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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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-33528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8gMgY-8IM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528","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=33528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33529,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33528\/revisions\/33529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinarupdates.com\/observer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}