Iraq calls on US ambassador to protest against Trump decision

Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated Friday after Friday prayers to denounce the US president's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and transfer his country's embassy to the holy city. Iraqi official and religious circles denounced the US decision, and the Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the US ambassador for the first time and handed him a protest note.

In the strongest response, Supreme Leader Ali al-Sistani issued a statement in which he strongly criticized the US president's decision. Moqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist movement, called for a military response to Israel, calling what he called the resistance factions for an urgent meeting. 
US President Donald Trump announced in a White House speech on Wednesday that he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and signed a decree to begin moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. 
And saw the cities of Iraq, yesterday afternoon, the vigils and demonstrations after Friday prayers to denounce the US decision. The protesters raised Palestinian flags as they burned Israeli and American flags. The Palestinian ambassador in Iraq, Ahmed Akl, participated in the demonstration held by the Sadrist movement in Sadr City.
"The Iraqi government rejects the US decision to recognize Al-Quds Al-Sharif as the capital of the Israeli occupation and the transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem," the media office said. 
Al-Abbadi's office warned of "the serious repercussions of this decision on the stability of the region and the world and the injustice it represents to the rights of the Palestinians, the Arab and Islamic world and other religions. Jerusalem is the title of coexistence between all religions and nations. No country has the right to legitimize the occupation, And to affect the legitimate rights of Palestine ". 
The prime minister called on Washington to "reverse this unjust decision to stop a dangerous escalation leading to extremism and create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism and destabilizing peace and stability in the world."
In the same context, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry announced the recall of US Ambassador to Baghdad Douglas Silliman. "The State Department calls on the US ambassador to hand him a note of protest against the US president's decision on Jerusalem," ministry spokesman Ahmed Mahjoub said. 
On the religious front, Supreme Leader Ali al-Sistani denounced the US president's decision. 
"This decision is condemned and condemned, and it has offended the feelings of hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims, but it will not change the fact that Jerusalem is an occupied land that should return to the sovereignty of its Palestinian owners no matter how long," a statement quoted an official source in the office of the Supreme Religious Council as saying. "The nation's efforts must be united and united in this way," the source said. 
During the Friday prayer, the representative of the Supreme Religious Authority, Ahmad al-Safi, called for "the nation to pay attention to itself or else it will be solved."
Moqtada al-Sadr, at a press conference held in Najaf on Thursday, called for resistance factions to coordinate and hold a meeting on the US president's decision. 
"I call upon the Arab youth to realize the seriousness of the issue and renew the Islamic jihadist spirit in order to liberate Jerusalem before it is too late," Sadr said. 
The leader of the Sadrist movement that "the Arab Spring must be against Israel and traitors of rulers and lovers of power," calling for "an emergency meeting of the Iraqi factions mujahideen wherever they wish to consider the subject of Jerusalem and declare it the capital of Israel." 
"We have coordination with the resistance factions to discuss the repercussions of the response to the American decision." "We call on the Organization of Islamic States and the League of Arab States to activate their role and not just denounce and denounce as we had previously."
The leader of the Sadrist movement called on Saudi Arabia to "end the war in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria immediately and direct the Islamic alliance that leads to Jerusalem to liberate it. Otherwise, humiliation and shame for us and her if you do not." 
"Al-Sadr said that" the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital (of Israel) came on the day of the birth of the Prophet, a challenge to Muslims, and I ask Muslims to read it well. " He called on the Arab and Islamic countries to "close the US embassies temporarily and close the Israeli embassies altogether," calling for "renounce Arab and Islamic differences to unite in front of such attacks."