{"id":21546,"date":"2026-03-24T21:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/24\/the-real-roadblock-to-government-formation-in-iraq-isnt-maliki-its-kurdish-power-politics-atlantic-council\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T21:07:00","slug":"the-real-roadblock-to-government-formation-in-iraq-isnt-maliki-its-kurdish-power-politics-atlantic-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/03\/24\/the-real-roadblock-to-government-formation-in-iraq-isnt-maliki-its-kurdish-power-politics-atlantic-council\/","title":{"rendered":"The real roadblock to government formation in Iraq isn\u2019t Maliki\u2014it\u2019s Kurdish power politics &#8211; Atlantic Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1gFBVV95cUxOMTJWSXNmWlZvYkZMbHpHYTlsZW53dTNvaUxSVnc2OFlCai1VVzVFeTUxSVVwNnZMcDluTEpNOHFrQXVZQndYWVRlTnIwZVpDY1RHLTcwSWs5eGxNX1RVTUNURENPTzUyZmxGQ1JZT25kMTNmdk5vVXZSZzhoVkVjMXRJQkNoZkNPeDF0U2YxbktSdVdGaWZzdWFKcmpURkRRSVlycVRlVXpPN3lzRzgzYTBtNE04VHI0TUxfRTIzcW5DTWdkVkVESlpQYkRwektiYmh6VmpR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The real roadblock to government formation in Iraq isn\u2019t Maliki\u2014it\u2019s Kurdish power politics<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Atlantic Council<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The real roadblock to government formation in Iraq isn\u2019t Maliki\u2014it\u2019s Kurdish power politics&nbsp;&nbsp;Atlantic Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}