Iraq’s government decrying the Trump administration’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, calling it “unjust” and urging the United States to revoke it.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in a statement on warns of “dangerous consequences” for the region’s stability and the world.
He says the US should “retreat from that decision in order to stop a dangerous escalation that leads to extremism and creates an atmosphere which helps terrorism.”
Meanwhile, hundreds of Iraqis are gathering in Baghdad to protest US President Donald Trump’s move.
The protest leader, Abdul-Latif al-Himaim from Iraq’s Sunni Religious Endowments, tells the protesters: “Jerusalem is our identity, Jerusalem is Arab.”
He says: “You can uproot a palm tree from a grove, but you will not be able to uproot Jerusalem from our hearts and from Palestine.”
— AP
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