AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): In response to the conference on reconciliation with the Zionist regime in Kurdistan region in Iraq, the office of Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Kazem Haeri stressed that the perpetrators of the conference should be punished in order to thwart this sinister plan.
In a statement, the office of the Marja, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Kazem Hosseini Haeri, in Najaf denounced the Erbil, Kurdistan region conference on normalization relations with the usurper Zionist regime.
In the statement, condemning the Erbil conference to normalize relations with the Zionists, the office called for the perpetrators of the meeting to be punished.
The English translation of the statement, which was originally issued in Arabic, is as follows:
بسم الله الرّحمن الرّحیم
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
God, the Almighty said in Holy Quran:
«لَتَجِدَنَّ أَشَدَّ النَّاسِ عَدَاوَةً لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا» (المائدة: 82)
“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews and Pagans” (Holy Quran, Surah Al-Ma’idah, Verse 82)
The Arbaeen anniversary of Imam Hussain (a.s.) has arrived, and millions of free people are walking towards his holy shrine to renew their allegiance with him and moving in his holy path. Meanwhile, a group of traitors gathered in Erbil to hold a meeting to normalize relations with Israel to tell the world that Iraq, which has sacrificed pure lives to defend its religion and its land, intends to shake hands with the oppressive occupying regime in order to normalize relations! We strongly condemn this treacherous act, which is aimed at legitimizing the usurping, criminal, regime which kills children, women and innocent people. We call on all the honorable people of Iraq to stand against this humiliating conspiracy in any way and to punish the perpetrators in order to thwart this sinister plan.
وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ مِمَّنْ ذُكِّرَ بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِ ثُمَّ أَعْرَضَ عَنْهَا ۚ إِنَّا مِنَ الْمُجْرِمِينَ مُنْتَقِمُونَ (سجدة: 22)
“And who does more wrong than one to whom are recited the Signs of his Lord, and who then turns away therefrom? Verily from those who transgress We shall exact (due) Retribution.” (Holy Quran, Surah AAs-Sajdah, Verse 22)
Safar 19, 1443
September 26, 2021
In should be mentioned that a few days ago, a conference with the participation of more than 300 people, and with the presence of nomadic personalities, was held in the city of Erbil in the Iraqi Kurdish region, and the participants called for the normalization of Iraq’s relations with the Zionist regime. The move provoked negative reactions, and a widespread wave of condemnation at various political levels, and Iraqi society.
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