️🇮🇶 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi called on armed groups to lay down their weapons, framing the issue as a choice between a country with factions and factions with a country.

️🇮🇶 Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi called on armed groups to lay down their weapons, framing the issue as a choice between a country with factions and factions with a country.

"I said, 'Are we a country with factions? If there are factions, is there a country? If there are factions, is there a country?

Having discussed this - if there is a country with factions - can this issue be handled by more than one faction?

Let's put down our weapons and send a message to Iraqi society: a country with factions, not a country with factions. And soon, God willing, Iraq will be a country free of factions, just like other countries in the world, and the weapons will be... '".