Al-Kaabi calls ministry of foreign affairs to summon Bahraini Ambassador over abusive comments against Muqtada al-Sadr

The First Deputy Speaker Mr. Hasan Karim al-Kaabi expressed condemnation over a tweet recently posted by Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifah, in which he insulted Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Al-Kaabi called on the Iraqi Foreign Ministry to summon the Bahraini ambassador to Baghdad and hand him a strongly worded protest letter, expressing the Iraqi government’s condemnation and rejection of what was issued by his country’s foreign minister. He stressed that the latter’s statement was blatant and deliberate abuse of a major Iraqi symbol.
The First Deputy Speaker Media Office
27/4/2019