The prime minister himself confirmed through his Twitter account that he is fine and asked the population to calm down in the face of this assassination attempt.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al Kazemi emerged unharmed from a drone bomb attack on his residence in central Baghdad today, the Security Information Cell reported in a statement.
There was “a failed assassination attempt against the prime minister, the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, with a drone with explosives, launched against his residence in the Green Zone in Baghdad,” the Cell said in a statement reproduced by the agency. Official Iraqi News Agency, INA.
Al Kazemi “suffered no harm, and is in good health,” the note added.
The prime minister himself confirmed through his Twitter account that he is fine and asked the population to calm down in the face of this assassination attempt.
“I’m fine, praise God, among my people, and I ask for calm and moderation from everyone, for the good of Iraq,” said the president.
“The treacherous missiles will not discourage believers and will not move them a hair before the firmness and insistence of our heroic security forces to preserve the security of the people, defend rights and reestablish the law,” he said in his tweet.
The Green Zone, in which the residence of the prime minister attacked early this Sunday is located, is a fortified area in the center of Baghdad, which also contains a good number of government buildings and foreign embassies.
This attack comes at a time of tension in Iraq after violent clashes between protesters and police during a demonstration last Friday in Baghdad, in front of the Green Zone itself, against the results of the legislative elections on October 10.
The confrontations left two people dead and more than a hundred wounded, many of them policemen.
Several Iraqi parties consider the official scrutiny of these elections fraudulent, especially those representing the militias integrated in the Popular Crowd, mostly Shiites and pro-Iranians, since they suffered a great loss of vote compared to the 2018 elections.
His supporters have been holding a protest camp in front of the Green Zone for almost two weeks.
On the other hand, in the last two years this area has been the target of a good number of rocket attacks, directed mainly against the American embassy, as a result of the assassination by the United States in January 2020 of the powerful Iranian commander Qasem Soleimaní through a targeted bombing in Baghdad.
This action was highly criticized by the Iraqi political forces and by the pro-Iranian militias in the country, to whom Washington blames these aggressions against the Green Zone, which are not claimed. (I)
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