NCRI – Hundreds of Iraqis during a peaceful demonstration on Monday called on the government to sever ties with Iranian regime after the recent occupation of Fekka oilfield by Iranian regime's forces. Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.
“The angry men called on the Iraqi government to freeze relations with Iran, demanding the Iranian forces to withdraw from the oilfield and to present an official apology to the Iraqi people for trespassing on their territory,” Hamad Abdulah, 42, one of the demonstrators, told the news agency.
The protest started from several parts of the city of Ramadi toward center. Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar province, is 110 km west of Baghdad.
Similar protests were held in other cities. "A large demonstration was held across the Iranian consulate in Karbala to protest the occupation of Fekka oilfield," Al-Shraqiya TV reported on Monday. Iraqi Tribal leaders, personalities and representatives of workers union and syndicates were at the forefront of the rally.
In Hawijah (north of Baghdad), hundreds of protesters condemned Iranian regime's occupation of the southern oilfield, Al-Baghdad TV reported.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi on Tuesday protested Iranian regime's moves to claim an oil well on the Iran-Iraq border last week, calling it a "wanton aggression against Iraq's sovereignty."
"Iraq is not weak, and will not accept any breach of its sovereignty or interests at home," the vice president said in a statement, DPA reported.
Iran's actions on Friday "reaffirmed Iran's ambitions on Iraqi territory and national wealth," said al-Hashemi.
He said that lowering the Iranian regime’s flag in the oil field "is not enough," "If Iran aspires to have good relations with Iraq, it should refrain from harming (Iraq)."
His remarks stood in stark contrast to conciliatory calls for calm from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite Muslim who lived in exile in Iran from 1982 until 1990, the report noted.
