{"id":31739,"date":"2019-02-04T10:22:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31739"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T10:22:47","slug":"iraqi-president-trump-did-not-ask-for-permission-to-watch-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=31739","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi president: Trump did not ask for permission to \u2018watch Iran\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1446721\/middle-east\" readability=\"44\">\n<p>\nBAGHDAD: \u00a0Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq&#8217;s permission for US\u00a0troops stationed there to &#8220;watch Iran.&#8221;<br \/>Speaking at a forum in Baghdad, Salih was responding to a question about Trump&#8217;s comments to CBS about how he would ask troops stationed in Iraq to &#8220;watch&#8221; Iran.<br \/>US\u00a0troops in Iraq are there as part of an agreement between the two countries with a specific mission of combating terrorism, Salih said, and that they should stick to that.<br \/>Trump said it was important to keep a US\u00a0military presence in Iraq so that Washington can keep a close eye on Iran &#8220;because Iran is a real problem,&#8221; according to a CBS interview broadcast on Sunday.<br \/>&#8220;Don&#8217;t overburden Iraq with your own issues,&#8221; Salih said. &#8220;The US\u00a0is a major power &#8230; but do not pursue your own policy priorities, we live here.&#8221;<br \/>Iraq is in a difficult position as tensions between its two biggest allies, the United States and Iran, increase.<br \/>&#8220;It is of fundamental interest for Iraq to have good relations with Iran&#8221; and other neighbouring countries, Salih said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAGHDAD: \u00a0Iraqi President Barham Salih said on Monday that President Donald Trump did not ask Iraq&#8217;s permission for US\u00a0troops stationed there to &#8220;watch Iran.&#8221;Speaking at a forum in Baghdad, Salih was responding to a question about Trump&#8217;s comments to CBS about how he would ask troops stationed in Iraq to &#8220;watch&#8221; Iran.US\u00a0troops in Iraq are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":31740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}