Baghdad - Saba:
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani warned Tuesday that the message sent by the Zionist enemy to the UN Security Council represents a pretext and argument to attack his country.
Al-Sudani said, in a statement following an emergency meeting of the Iraqi Council of Ministers on Tuesday evening: "The message sent by the Zionist entity to the UN Security Council represents a pretext and argument to attack Iraq, and to achieve the entity's ongoing efforts to expand the war in the region."
He stressed that "Iraq rejects these threats and the decision of war and peace is a decision in the hands of the Iraqi state, and no party is allowed to confiscate this right."
The Iraqi Prime Minister pointed out that "Iraq refuses to enter the war, while adhering to the principled position to end it, and seeking to provide relief to the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples."
Al-Sudani directed, according to the statement, to follow up on developments and confirm the Iraqi position.
The Zionist entity claimed earlier that it had called on the UN Security Council, via a letter, to take immediate action regarding the groups attacking it from Iraq, threatening what it described as the right to self-defense.
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