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Iraq's Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Tuesday (March 10, 2026) that Iraq should not beryllium utilized arsenic a motorboat pad for attacks successful the Middle East war.
Iraq neighbours Iran, against which the United States and Israel launched monolithic strikes connected February 28, arsenic good arsenic the Gulf, which the Islamic republic has deed with rocket and drone attacks.
Israel-Iran warfare updates connected March 10, 2026
Within hours of the commencement of the war, combatant jets and missiles coming from each absorption filled Iraq's airspace.
Mr. Sudani stressed successful a telephone telephone with Mr. Rubio "the value of ensuring that Iraqi airspace, territory, and waters are not utilized for immoderate subject enactment targeting neighbouring countries oregon the region," the Prime Minister's media bureau said.
Mr. Sudani rejected "any effort to resistance the state into ongoing conflicts," arsenic good arsenic "violations of its airspace by immoderate party."
Iraq, agelong a proxy battleground betwixt Washington and Tehran, was drawn into the warfare from the outset, with strikes blamed connected the U.S. and Israel targeting Iran-backed groups, which successful crook person since claimed attacks connected U.S. bases successful Iraq and the wider region.
U.S. State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said that Mr. Rubio "strongly condemned violent attacks by Iran and Iran-aligned violent militia groups successful Iraq," including the Kurdistan region.
He urged Iraq to instrumentality "all imaginable measures to safeguard U.S. diplomatic unit and facilities."
On Saturday (March 7, 2026), aerial defence systems intercepted rockets fired astatine the U.S. embassy successful Baghdad.
U.S. aerial defences present intercept drones astir regular implicit Erbil, the superior of Kurdistan, which besides hosts a US consulate complex.
