The Iraqi government has announced a Sept. 30 deadline for pro-Iran terrorist groups in the country to disarm and hand over all their weapons.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi’s office, in a June 29 statement on X, outlined the government’s reform agenda and development plans, saying that “confining arms to the hands of the state is not merely a slogan, but a policy already being implemented.”
“After this date, all weapons outside the state framework will be subject to legal redress,” Iraqi government spokesman Haider al-Aboudi told a weekly press conference.
The Sept. 30 deadline coincides with the end of the presence of the U.S.-led international coalition in Iraq that was established in 2014 at the request of the Iraqis to fight ISIS. The Islamic extremist terrorist group has largely been defeated in the country, with NATO forces in the coalition withdrawing in March following the start of the Iran War….