More inclusive action from a US-backed government

Iraq government promises to arrest all who announced plans for peace with Israel. 

Aaron Boxerman, The Times of Israel

“Baghdad says it will arrest all 300 participants at event in Kurdistan that called for peace, once it can establish who they are; Sahar al-Ta’i, Wisam al-Hardan were main speakers.”

“Israel today, as you know, is a strong country and an inseparable part of the world and the United Nations. Iraq cannot neglect this fact and live in isolation from the world,” Sahar al-Ta’i, a senior official in Iraq’s Culture Ministry, told the attendees.

Iraqi Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr was not as conciliatory, stating, “Erbil must prevent these Zionist terrorist meetings. If not, the government must arrest all the participants.”

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