Baghdad – Zidan Al-Rubaie:
The Joint Operations Command confirmed, on Monday, a comprehensive curfew in all governorates of Iraq, from Monday evening and until further notice.
The leadership said in a brief statement: “The Joint Operations Command announces a comprehensive curfew in all governorates of Iraq, starting from seven in the evening today, Monday, until further notice. We will provide you with the details later.”
Prior to that, Iraqi President Barham Salih called, on Monday, for everyone to abide by calm, restraint, prevent escalation, and ensure that the situation does not slip into unknown and dangerous labyrinths in which everyone will lose.
Saleh said, in a statement: “The difficult circumstance that is going through our country requires everyone to abide by calm, restraint, prevent escalation, and ensure that the situation does not slip into unknown and dangerous labyrinths in which everyone will lose.”
He added, “Peaceful demonstration and expression of opinion is a constitutionally guaranteed right, while adhering to the laws and maintaining public security, but disrupting state institutions is a dangerous matter that puts the country and citizens’ interests in grave danger. Maintaining security, order and public property.
Saleh considered that “the developments of events impose on the national forces a double responsibility to rise above differences in the interest of what is more precious and valuable, for the sake of the country, prevent violence and spare the precious blood of Iraqis, adopt careful positions that protect the homeland, and preserve the peaceful, democratic, constitutional path for which our people sacrificed dearly and preciously. It should not be neglected under any circumstances.
