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Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Iraq speaker condemns ‘Iranian violation of Iraqi sovereignty’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe speaker of the Iraqi parliament, Mohammed al-Halbusi, condemns a salvo of retaliatory Iranian missile strikes on Iraqi bases housing US-led troops as a “violation of Iraqi sovereignty.”
Halbusi, the most senior Sunni Arab in Iraq’s confessional power-sharing system, calls for urgent measures to stop Iraq being turned into a proxy battlefield for outside powers, including Shiite Iran.
“While we condemn the Iranian violation of Iraqi sovereignty at dawn today… we confirm our absolute refusal to the conflicting parties to use the Iraqi arena to settle scores,” he says.
— AFP
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