Unverified · Baghdad, Iraq ·
Tasnim News (Telegram, Iran-aligned) reports that Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met and held talks in Baghdad on the sidelines of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers meeting. Separate posts from the anonymous X account @ME_Observer_ report other Araghchi meetings in Baghdad, with Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Al-Faleh Al-Zaidi, with Iraqi FM Fuad Hussein and Ammar al-Hakim, and with Lebanese FM Youssef Raji; none of them mention Fidan.
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- Tasnim names Turkish FM Hakan Fidan as Araghchi's counterpart; no @ME_Observer_ post mentions Fidan, so the Fidan meeting rests on Tasnim alone.
- The @ME_Observer_ posts name different counterparts (Al-Zaidi, Fuad Hussein, Ammar al-Hakim, Youssef Raji). These are not direct conflicts, since one minister can hold several meetings, but none of them can be checked against the Tasnim report.
- Timestamps differ: Tasnim is 2026-10-17 11:10 UTC; @ME_Observer_ posts are 2026-10-17 14:28, 2026-10-18 04:31 and 2026-10-18 08:32 UTC. Timing differences alone do not contradict the meeting.
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