{"id":12409,"date":"2017-12-07T18:26:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=12409"},"modified":"2017-12-07T18:26:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:26:40","slug":"top-iraqi-shia-cleric-condemns-trumps-al-quds-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/top-iraqi-shia-cleric-condemns-trumps-al-quds-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Iraqi Shia cleric condemns Trump\u2019s al-Quds decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Iraq\u2019s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has condemned a controversial decision by the United States to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the \u201ccapital\u201d of Israel, saying the occupied city must return to its Palestinian owners.<\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Sistan\u2019s office issued a statement on Thursday and said Washington\u2019s move \u201churts the feelings of hundreds of millions of Arabs, Muslims.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The statement came after US President Donald Trump defied overwhelming international opposition and said his country will recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the \u201ccapital\u201d of Israel, directing the State Department to prepare for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement has triggered a chorus of condemnations from around the world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis decision is condemned and decried, it hurt the feelings of hundreds of millions of Arabs and Muslims,\u201d it said. \u201cBut it won\u2019t change the reality that Jerusalem is an occupied land which should return to the sovereignty of its Palestinian owners no matter how long it takes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement also called on the Muslim world \u201cto combine its efforts\u201d towards that goal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171207\/37874788-cc93-49cb-adfb-c266c3b1e48d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"313\" \/><figcaption>\u00a0Palestinian protesters step on US and Israeli flags and on a portrait of US President Donald Trump following his decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the \u201ccapital\u201d of Israel, in Gaza City, on December 7, 2017. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Iraqi government on Thursday slammed Trump\u2019s announcement and called on Washington to backtrack on the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US administration has to backtrack on this decision to stop any dangerous escalation that would fuel extremism and create conditions favorable to terrorism,\u201d a government statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Iraq\u2019s Foreign Ministry spokesman said it had summoned the US ambassador in Baghdad to hand him a memo protesting Trump&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council has also announced an emergency session on the US move on Friday upon a request by eight member states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq\u2019s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has condemned a controversial decision by the United States to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the \u201ccapital\u201d of Israel, saying the occupied city must return to its Palestinian owners. Ayatollah Sistan\u2019s office issued a statement on Thursday and said Washington\u2019s move \u201churts the feelings of hundreds of millions &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-scientists-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12411,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12409\/revisions\/12411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}