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Iraqi speaker responds to Iran’s Ghalibaf with different Gulf map PHOTO

20 August 2026 17:29

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Haibat al-Halbousi posted a photo showing a map in the background labelled the “Arabian Gulf.”

Social media users and regional observers viewed the post as a symbolic response to Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Caliber.Az reports, citing Arabic media.

#الخليج_العربي pic.twitter.com/K5VyYudX6Y
— هيبت الحلبوسي (@HaibetHalbousi) August 20, 2026

A day earlier, the Iranian speaker had shared a photo of himself standing in front of a map labelled the “Persian Gulf.”

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— محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf) August 19, 2026

The indirect dispute over the name of the body of water came less than 24 hours after the two politicians met in Baghdad.

By Jeyhun Aghazada

Caliber.Az

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