The Iraqi Foreign Ministry on Sunday handed a letter to the US ambassador in which he condemned the US operation against Iranian general Kassem Suleymani and regarded it as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, the Arab satellite television channel Al-Arabiya reported.
“The use of Iraqi territory to attack third countries is unacceptable”, – the channel said, citing the Foreign Ministry.
A meeting is currently taking place in the Iraqi parliament to discuss the withdrawal of US troops from Iraqi territory.
On the night of January 3, the United States conducted an operation in the area of Baghdad International Airport against the commander of the elite unit of the Iranian army, the Quds special forces, General Kassem Suleimani and the deputy head of the Iraqi Shiite militia, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who in Washington are considered involved in organizing the attack on the American Embassy in Baghdad.