⚡️🇮🇶🇺🇸🇮🇷 — Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared an institutional plan to completely disarm Iran-backed militias by June 30, 2027, confronting critical security and economic pressure from the Trump administration. In his first foreign media interview at his official residence ahead of the United Nations General Assembly, al-Zaidi framed the disarmament and anti-corruption campaigns as non-negotiable strategic priorities required to stabilize the national economy. The proposed operational timeline enforces an immediate 90-day cessation of hostilities during which militias would halt attacks under a reciprocal assurance of non-aggression from U.S. forces — NYT.

Following this window, militias must progressively surrender their weaponry, with all elements integrated strictly as individuals into the state-sanctioned Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF); any groups maintaining independent operations after the June 2027 deadline will be designated as outlaws.

➡️ Regional diplomats and anonymous Iraqi security officials warn the timeline is nearly impossible to execute without an elusive U.S.-Iran peace deal. Major pro-Iran militias are resisting, claiming the right to bear arms due to perceived threats from a U.S.-Israeli military alignment and alleged covert bases in the Iraqi desert. Furthermore, militias have conditioned disarmament on the withdrawal of Turkish troops from northern Iraq. To resolve this, Ankara demands the clearing of Kurdish militant camps; consequently, Baghdad is working on a parallel timeline to absorb local Kurdish forces into the PMF, leveraging economic incentives including a recently agreed one-year deal to increase oil export capacity via an existing Iraqi-Turkish pipeline.

➡️ As the world's third-largest oil supplier, Iraq has lost 60% of its monthly export revenue—totaling approximately $60 billion—since shipping lanes through the Strait of Hormuz were choked due to regional conflict. Al-Zaidi confirmed that despite bilateral talks, Tehran has maintained a firm decision to block Iraqi tankers from the strait to deliberately drive up global crude prices. To bypass the Persian Gulf, al-Zaidi is heavily pitching alternative energy corridors, having presented proposals to France and Germany for new pipelines routing directly through Turkey to deliver Iraqi oil to the European market, positioning Iraq as a regional economic hub rather than a theater of hostility.

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