Iraq summons Iranian ambassador over missile attack on Iraqi lands: state TV
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10 January, 2020, 09:30 am
Last modified: 10 January, 2020, 09:33 am
FILE PHOTO: A display featuring missiles and a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is seen at Baharestan Square in Tehran, Iran September 27, 2017. Picture taken September 27, 2017. Nazanin Tabatabaee Yazdi/TIMA via REUTERS
Iraq's ministry of foreign affairs said in a statement on Thursday that it has summoned the Iranian ambassador to inform him of Iraq's objection to attacks on military bases on Iraqi territories and that Iraq considers this action as a violation of sovereignty.
The statement called on all parties to exercise self restraint and affirmed Iraq's independence.
It also said that summoning the Iranian official comes in the context of Iranian retaliatory missile strikes earlier this week.
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