In their letter, 310 tribal sheikhs from southern Shiite provinces of Iraq, including two General Sheikhs from these areas, strongly condemned the war aggression of the mullahs’ regime against the Ashraf city and asked for the closure of the regime’s embassy in Baghdad and the expulsion of its ambassador.

The letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary General, the commander of MNF-I and other relevant authorities, reads:

“For the past five years, bloodied Iraq with the Iranian regime’s dagger in its back, is living hard conditions. During these years, all Iraqi people, especially the Shiites in the south, have figured out that the Iranian regime has been playing the main and key role in these crimes and crises. Unfortunately, there has been no ear to the cries of the Iraqi people by the international authorities and the Iraqi government to put an end on these crimes and interventions and no serious and practical measures have been taken yet, such that the regime has dared attack with “Grad” missiles the friends and allies of the Iraqi people in Iraq’s soil, namely the PMOI in Ashraf city.

While condemning this anti-human crime, we, the tribal sheikhs of the southern Iraq, declare once again:
1. We consider this attack a terrorist action and meddling in Iraq’s affairs, flagrant hostility against Iraq and breech of international law and Iraqi people’s sovereignty and strongly condemn it.
2. We consider launching missiles against the Ashraf city and its residents, who are protected persons under the Forth Geneva Convention, as anti-human and anti-Islam measure and a war crime.
3. We ask for the closure of Iran’s embassy in Iraq and the expulsion of its ambassador, Kazemi Qomi, who is a member of the Terrorist Quds Force, because this embassy operates as the spy nest in Iraq where the requisites and planning for such crimes are prepared there.
4. We ask for prosecution of the orderers and perpetrators of this crime and to bring them before justice.