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Iraqi ministers said set to be questioned after report that Israel built base in desert
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleNurit Yohanan is The Times of Israel's Palestinian and Arab world correspondent
The Qatari newspaper Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reports, citing an Iraqi source, that the Iraqi parliament will summon the country’s defense and interior ministers for questioning over a report in The Wall Street Journal claiming that Israel built a military base near the Saudi-Iraqi border in the Najaf desert to support operations during the war against Iran.
A source in the Iraqi parliament tells the newspaper that the ministers will be summoned along with commanders from Iraq’s security establishment.
A security source also told the newspaper that the area mentioned in the report, where the base was allegedly located, is currently “clear” and no military force remains there.
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