The Iraqi government announced its rejection in the strongest terms of any infringement on the status of the supreme religious authority.
Government spokesman Bassem Al-Awadi said in a statement today, "After the Zionist entity has gone too far in the war of genocide, committed blatant crimes against humanity, and publicly practiced killing and aggression in Gaza and Lebanon, it is the turn of its inciting and racist media, in a cheap attempt to harm the image of the supreme religious authority."
Al-Awadi stressed, "The Iraqi government rejects in the strongest terms any infringement on the status of our authority, which is appreciated and respected by all the Iraqi people, the Arab and Islamic worlds, and the international community, and warns of the danger of these attempts based on a racist intellectual background and foundations that have gone too far in disregarding the sanctities of peoples, which encourages the expansion of the circle of aggression and exposes international security and peace to a real threat."
He added: The Zionist entity proves, once again, that it is nothing but a criminal group that thrives on creating crises, feeding aggression and wars, and its isolation increases day after day, and the popular and international positions in the world rejecting its behavior are nothing but confirmation of this aggressive trend.
Al-Awadi continued: "Based on these facts, we call on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, and all international and UN forums, to reject and denounce everything that affects the feelings of Muslims in the world, and attempts to undermine influential and globally respected figures.
Al-Awadi concluded by saying: Iraq, government and people, have made every effort to stop the war, but the entity and its extremist government, in addition to the failure of the international community, have caused the situation to worsen, and today it is trying to spread insults to cover up the clear crimes, which we reject in general, and we consider it a dangerous aggression that will not change Iraq's firm and principled position towards all fateful issues.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency