It seems that the disturbing Iranian messages to the United States and its allies, Iraq is the source of it , are in continuous communication, under the pretext of refusing to hold the Manama conference on the Palestinian issue, the demonstrators ripped down the Bahraini flag from the top of the building of the Bahrain embassy in Baghdad waving Palestinian banners , and burned the American and Israeli flags, in response to this intrusion, the Bahraini Foreign Ministry announced that it had summoned its ambassador from Iraq for consultations. For its part, the Iraqi government has promised to hold accountable the groups who stormed the embassy.
Legally, what happened yesterday against the Bahraini embassy in Baghdad is completely contrary to the diplomatic relations of 1961, and entails international responsibility if the state fails to provide protection to the headquarters of diplomatic and consular missions. Yesterday’s attack on the inviolability of the Bahraini embassy is a violation of its sovereignty. The embassy is considered a regional extension of the state. In the legal sense, any attack on the embassy is an attack on its state.
Politically, the purpose of breaking into the embassy is very clear. It is a message from Iran through its allies in Iraq to the United States that Iran is capable of interfering and affect your political plans in the region. Anyone who wants to object to the Manama conference does not storm the Bahraini embassy in Baghdad, but there are other civilized means to express the rejection and protest against the Manama conference and to support the rights of the Palestinian people. The evidence for that the aim of the storming was an Iranian target with distinction rather than a rejection of the Manama conference , we note in December 2017 , when the US president made a serious decision in which the occupied al-Quds was considered the capital of Israel , and in March, Trump signed a decree provides , that the United States’ recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan and other decisions taken by the Trump administration against the Palestinian cause, we did not see these crowds heading towards the US Embassy in Baghdad, and the reason is very understandable where Tehran has not issued a decision to its allies in Iraq to go to that US embassy. The question that arises in this context, especially for the allies of Iran: Why should Iraq pay the bill of conflict between the administration of Trump and Iran? Why do they insist on weakening Iraq?
Strenuous efforts are being made by the President of the Republic of Iraq, Barham Salih, and his Prime Minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi, to restore Iraq to its Arab depth, which can not be dispensed under any circumstances. In return, Iran’s allies are working to ruin these efforts.
Iraqi Studies Unit
Rawabet Center for Research and Strategic Studies