BAGHDAD (MEMO) –
Leaders of twenty Iraqi clans have signed a covenant stressing that they will work to support Palestine and the Palestinian cause “until the liberation of Palestine and realization of Palestinian rights,” Shehab news agency reported.
The announcement was made during a visit by the clan leaders to the Embassy of Palestine in Baghdad.
They told Ambassador Ahmad Aqel that they would keep their promise to protect Palestine and seek its liberation from Zionist occupation. In turn, Aqel briefed the clan leaders about the latest developments related to the Palestinian cause, and told them what the people of occupied Palestine expect from Iraq’s clans and political parties.
On 26 May, the Iraqi parliament passed a law unanimously which makes normalization with the apartheid regime a criminal offence. Contacting official Zionist institutions, or creating political, economic, military or cultural links with the regime are now acts punishable by law.
Iraq has no diplomatic or other ties with the occupying regime. Most of its political factions reject normalization with the occupying regime.
The passage of the law cemented the Arab country’s invariable and age-old policy of refusing to recognize the occupying regime.
Back in 2020, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain entered United States-brokered so-called “peace deals” with the Zionist regime. Some other regional states, namely Sudan and Morocco, followed suit.
Other regional countries have also been fraternizing the occupying regime, including Saudi Arabia, which received a visit by the regime’s former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in November 2020.
The Iraqi law took effect amid widespread reports pointing to the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region’s cooperation with the Zionist spy agency Mossad.
On Wednesday, Iraq’s resistance groups said the Kurdistan region’s prime minister Masrour Barzani was training armed militias with “Israeli support” to create chaos and disorder in the country.
The Coordination Committee of the Shia Resistance Axis, which represents Iraq’s resistance groups, warned Kurdistan authorities that their “malicious pursuit, and the fire they are trying to ignite, will come back on them and burn them before it hurts others, and they will only suffer disappointment and loss.”