2024-01-17T11:57:15+00:00
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/ On Wednesday, during an emergency session called by Iraq, the League of Arab States adopted a draft resolution condemning the Iranian bombing of the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
According to a statement by the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs, received by Agency, the decision included “strong condemnation of the bombing that the Kurdistan Region was subjected to, which resulted in the martyrdom of a number of innocent citizens and the destruction of a number of civilian sites, and considered this attack as a blatant aggression against the sovereignty of Iraq and the security of the Iraqi people and a grave violation of the principles of good neighborliness.” and international laws, conventions and norms.”
The resolution also condemned all justifications and pretexts given by the Iranian government, which do not give any country the right to violate the sovereignty of another country and endanger the lives of its citizens in contravention of the rules of international law and the Charter of the United Nations. The resolution holds Iran accountable for all the consequences of this violation and its results, and considers it a dangerous precedent whose repetition may completely disturb peace and security in the region.
The resolution also affirmed the unity and sovereignty of Iraqi territory against any external aggression or violation, and affirmed Iraq’s right, as a founding member of the League of Arab States and a member of the United Nations, to resort to all diplomatic and legal means guaranteed by international law, the Charter of the United Nations, and the Charter of the League of Arab States, in responding to these matters. Violations.
The resolution asked the Arab member of the United Nations Security Council, in coordination with the Republic of Iraq, to mobilize the necessary support to issue resolutions condemning this attack as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and a violation of the principle of good neighborliness and international laws and norms.
In addition, the Arab League commissioned the Council of Arab Ambassadors in New York, Geneva, Vienna, Brussels, Washington, London, Paris, Beijing, and Moscow to refer the decision to the foreign ministries of those countries, as well as the international organizations present in them, and to request the Secretary-General of the League to follow up on this issue and address the member states of the Security Council and the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Regarding the content of this resolution, as well as following up on the complaint submitted by Iraq to the Security Council and submitting a report to the Arab League Council at its next session.
During the night – Monday to Tuesday – the Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched a violent bombardment with ballistic missiles targeting civilian areas in Erbil, which led to the death of 10 civilians, one victim or one wounded.
The Revolutionary Guard claimed responsibility for the strikes that targeted Erbil, and said in a statement that they came “in response to the crimes of the Zionist regime against the Islamic Republic, the latest of which was the killing of a number of Guard commanders by Zionist fire. A major spy headquarters for the Mossad in the Kurdistan region of Iraq was targeted and destroyed with ballistic missiles.” .
Federal Prime Minister, Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, described the bombing as a “clear act of aggression,” stressing his government’s intention to take “legal and diplomatic measures,” while ordering the formation of an investigative committee consisting of five individuals, headed by National Security Advisor Qasim Al-Araji, to investigate the bombing attack. The Iranian missile that targeted the city of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
Al-Araji confirmed, after he conducted a field visit with members of the investigative committee on the site of the Iranian bombing in Erbil, that Iran’s claims “of targeting a Mossad headquarters in the governorate are baseless.”