A prominent Iraqi cleric has issued historical statement calling the Sunni community in the Arab country to defend Iran. RNA – Shaykh Abdul-Latif al-Hamim, the head of the Sunni Endowment of Iraq, has issued a fatwa (religious edict) mandating all Sunni communities in the Arab country to defend Iran against the hostile policies of the United States.
This is while Iraqi media have called the fatwa as unparalleled and the first of its kind since the topple of former dictator Saddam Hussein.
A renowned figure among Iraqi intellectuals and author of several books on Islamic teaching, al-Hamim stressed, “Not only Iraq, but also all members of the Islamic nation are expected to confront the hostile policies of the United States against Iran and all Islamic and Arab states.”
He added, “All changes in the Middle East and across the world of Islam are part of a project to neutralize the most powerful players in the world of Islam and distancing the regional players from the equation of power in front of the Zionist regime of Israel.”
al-Hamim noted that a Zionist plan with which they have ousted Iraq, Syria and Libya from the equation of power as they are struggling to do so with Egypt.
The Iraqi cleric called the hostile policies of the United States against Iran to be in line with the Zionist project which will continue till withdrawing all regional players from the power equation in the Middle East.
Source: TaghribNews
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