(AhlulBayt News Agency) - The committee made its call after a meeting in Baghdad.
“We ask the Iraqi government to reciprocate to the decision taken by the U.S administration,” said the committee in a statement read to Reuters by one its members, Hassan Shwerid.
“Iraq is in the front line of the war of terrorism (..) and it is unfair that the Iraqis are treated in this way.”
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an order freezing for 90 days the issuance of visas for immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries: Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia for national security considerations. The move caused a state of chaos across world airports as authorities and U.S. embassies began to implement the directives. Protests broke out in the U.S. against the move.
The call to ban U.S. nationals came in a statement published by its spokesman, Ahmed al-Assadi.
On Sunday, the U.S. embassy in Iraq said it was implementing the new directives.
Iran’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday it would apply similar restrictions on visitors from the United States.
The Iraqi government has so far declined to comment on the executive order.
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