Ex-Iraqi PM: Country should not be used as launching pad
Iraq refuses to be a launching pad for threats against any of its neighbours and at the same time countries surrounding Iraq should not threaten the security of this Arab state, former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, said today amid rising tension between the United States and Iran.
Al-Jaafari told reporters in this holy city after meeting the country’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani that followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will end their six-week-old political boycott “very soon".
