TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraq’s PM announced that he would submit his resignation to parliament after the country’s top cleric called on Iraqi lawmakers to “reconsider” their options regarding the future of Iraq. In a statement on Friday, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Iraq’s PM, said he “listened with great concern” to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s sermon and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Mousavi said the country has urged the Baghdad government to punish those attackers behind Wednesday assault on the Iran consulate in the Iraqi city of Najaf. In a statement released on Thursday morning, Mousavi decried the attack on the consulate and said the Iraqi ambassador […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraq condemns an attack on Iran’s consulate in the southern city of Najaf after the building was stormed and was blazing by rioters the previous day. As Iraqi state news agency said early on Thursday, citing the foreign ministry, Wednesday’s attack was ‘aimed at damaging the historical relations between Iraq and […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A senior Iraqi legislator claimed that region countries, the UAE and Kuwait, supported by the US, have sent huge fund to their affiliates in Iraq in a bid to derail unrests and protest rallies in the country and overthrow its government. “The Persian Gulf littoral states and the US have sent […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Reports of clashes in Baghdad and southern Iraq indicate that at least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in the latest spate of ongoing protests against economic hardships and corruption, police and medical sources said Sunday. In the southern town of Nasiriyah in Iraq, security forces clashed with demonstrators and […]

Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr condemns the US for its interference in Iraq’s internal affairs, threatening to take millions of demonstrators to streets if Washington keeps meddling in the Arab country. In a statement on Monday, al-Sadr said that the Iraqi people want an early election free from the US intervention, as the country […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The United States has called on Iraqi officials to hold early polls as fresh protests in Baghdad begins. In a statement issued Sunday, as fresh protests in Baghdad begin, the White House asked the Iraqi government “to halt the violence against protesters and fulfill President [Barham] Salih’s promise to pass electoral […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraqi security forces have regained control over three bridges in Baghdad, ending days-long partial blockades of the key passageways into the capital city’s heavily-fortified Green Zone by anti-government protesters. Iraqi forces were able to disperse protesters from the al-Sinek, al-Shuhada, and al-Ahrar bridges and expand the safety buffer around the Green […]

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi said on Saturday that political parties had “made mistakes” in their running of the country, promising electoral reform and other measures as he sought to bring an end to protests. “Political forces and parties are important institutions in any democratic system, and they have made […]

Iraq’s most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called on security forces to avoid using excessive force in the wake of anti-government protests that have entered their third week, and lead peaceful protests in Iraq. In a statement read out by his representative Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalaei during a sermon in the holy city of […]