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Iran Foreign Ministry condemns attacks on foreign diplomatic missions in Iraq

Thursday, 17 September 2020 4:41 PM [ Last Update: Thursday, 17 September 2020 5:12 PM ]

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeid Khatibzadeh

The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemns all acts of aggression targeting foreign diplomatic missions in Iraq after reports emerge pointing to taking place of such violence in the Arab country’s capital, Baghdad.

Spokesman Saeid Khatibzadeh on Thursday denounced any instance of aggression or trespassing against diplomatic missions based in the Arab country.

Reports had earlier pointed to a series of explosive attacks against foreign targets in Baghdad.

On Tuesday, an improvised explosive device targeted a British Embassy vehicle returning from Baghdad airport, an Iraqi security official said.

The attack, the first against a British government vehicle in Iraq in more than a decade, took place just outside the capital’s high-security Green Zone that houses the British Embassy and other diplomatic missions.

The same official said two Katyusha rockets, meanwhile, targeted the US Embassy inside the premises. The projectiles were reportedly shot down by an interceptor mechanism that has been installed at the compound.

Rocket hits Baghdad’s high security Green Zone

The rocket attack caused no casualties or damage.

And on Monday, two explosive devices targeted a US-led coalition equipment convoy in the city, the Iraqi military said in a statement.

None of the attacks caused any casualties.

Khatibzadeh reminded that Iranian diplomats and diplomatic facilities had been targeted in acts of aggression throughout the Arab country in the past, urging Baghdad to ramp up its efforts to protect foreign diplomatic missions and ensure that their routine operations are not disrupted by such instances of violence.

Last year, a group of rioters stormed the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic mission in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf and set it ablaze.

Iran condemns 'brutal' attack on its consulate in Iraq’s Basra

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The Iranian Consulate in the port city of Basra had also been torched the year before as rioters had hijacked protests against economic austerity and corruption.

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