Iraqi has expressed anger over
Iran’s missile attack on military bases hosting US troops in Baghdad, raising
questions over its sovereignty.
There is increasing anger across
Iraq following the Wednesday early morning attack.
Many Iraqis are now seeing the
attack as a “stark violation of Iraqi sovereignty” and compared it to the US
strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, according to Al Jazeera.
Iran fired more than a dozen
missiles at two Iraqi military bases early on Wednesday morning.
The US confirmed that the
missiles hit the Ain al-Assad airbase in Anbar Province and a facility near
Erbil’s airport in northern Iraq.
The attacks came in retaliation
for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, leader of Iran’s Islamic
Revolutionary Guard Corp’s (IRGC) Quds Force.
The attacks also came after much
threats and escalation of tensions in the Middle East.
Soleimani was killed in Baghdad
airport alongside Iraqi paramilitary commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and many
others.
Iraqi President Barham Salih’s
office issued a statement on Wednesday to condemn Iran’s missile attack for
taking place “on Iraqi soil”.
He also denounced Tehran’s
“repeated violation of Iraqi sovereignty and its transformation of Iraq into a
battlefield for confrontation between belligerent parties”.
Following the missile attacks
Iraq’s Speaker of Parliament Mohamed al-Halbousi issued a statement to “condemn
Iran’s violation of Iraqi sovereignty and express complete rejection of
transforming Iraq into a spectre for settling scores.”
He added in the statement that
his government must take the necessary measures to end the “assault” on Iraq by
Iran and the US.
According to him, Iraq country
should be left out of confrontations between Washington and Tehran.
Also condemning that assault on
Iraq’s soil, Sarkawt Shams, member of the Kurdish Future bloc in the Iraqi
parliament, said, “Iran’s actions on Iraqi soil should be condemned just like
the US airstrikes were,” Shams told Al Jazeera.
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