Iraqi parliamentary bloc spokesman rejects foreign dictates over Chazabeh crossing closure
Mohammed Karim al-Baldawi, spokesman for Iraq’s Al-Sadiqoun parliamentary bloc, said Iraqi sovereignty was not negotiable and its crossings would never be held hostage to foreign dictates. He was responding to the Iraqi government’s decision to close the Chazabeh crossing on the Iranian border, which the source described as made at the United States’ request.