The Iraqi foreign ministry on Saturday called on foreign countries and international organizations to respect Iraq's sovereignty and not interfere in its internal affairs.
The Iraqi government respects the will of Iraqis to demand their rights guaranteed by the constitution, especially with regard to the choice of their government and freedom of expression, and without prejudice to the regime, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. General and literature, as the statement.
The statement comes a day after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called on the Iraqi government to respond to what he called the legitimate demands of the people.
In the same statement, Pompeo criticized the investigation conducted by the Iraqi authorities in the middle of last month about the violence that accompanied the demonstrations, and considered that the results of the investigation lacks sufficient credibility, calling on the Iraqi authorities to ease the restrictions imposed on the freedom of the press and expression.
In Tehran, the head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee in the Iranian parliament Mojtaba Zul-Nur said that the demands of the Iraqi people are right, but there are those who exploit the situation and trying to change the course of protests.
Zul Nur said in statements to the press today that the US embassy with the help of what he described as Wahhabis, separatists and members of the former regime in Iraq are trying to bring the situation to a riot.
The Iranian official criticized the leader of the Sadrist movement Moqtada al-Sadr, and stressed that his decisions are wrong, and does not represent the Shiite authority in Iraq, as he put it.