{"id":58002,"date":"2020-01-10T09:16:06","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58002"},"modified":"2020-01-10T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:16:07","slug":"after-missile-launch-iran-says-it-respects-iraqi-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58002","title":{"rendered":"After missile launch Iran says it respects Iraqi sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/After-missile-launch-Iran-says-it-respects-Iraqi-sovereignty.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/After-missile-launch-Iran-says-it-respects-Iraqi-sovereignty.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Iran said it respects Iraq\u2019s territorial integrity, after firing missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The early Wednesday strike led Iraq to say it would summon the Iranian<br>ambassador.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a letter to the United Nations Security Council and UN Secretary<br>General Antonio Guterres, Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Majid Takht Ravanchi, said his country has full respect for \u201cthe independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Republic of Iraq.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were no American or Iraqi military casualties in the strikes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe operation was precise and targeted military objectives thus leaving<br>no collateral damage to civilians and civilian assets in the area,\u201d the<br>diplomat said in a letter released by the Iranian mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran \u201crecalls its dedication to the maintenance of international peace and<br>security and stresses that it does not seek escalation or war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq\u2019s foreign ministry said it would call in the Iranian ambassador because of the missile attack, which it called a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Iraq had already summoned the US ambassador after the US drone strike last Friday that killed top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani near Baghdad airport. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNITED NATIONS, Jan 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Iran said it respects Iraq\u2019s territorial integrity, after firing missiles at Iraqi bases housing US troops. The early Wednesday strike led Iraq to say it would summon the Iranianambassador. In a letter to the United Nations Security Council and UN SecretaryGeneral Antonio Guterres, Iran\u2019s ambassador to the UN, Majid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}