Shafaq News-Baghdad
The SupremeJudicial Council of Iraq declared that an arrest warrant circulating on socialmedia and purportedly issued against former Prime Minister Mohammed Shiaal-Sudani is fabricated and carries no legal force.
Thedocument, attributed to the First Karkh Investigation Court in Baghdad anddated June 23, 2026, named al-Sudani, listed in the warrant as former PrimeMinister of Iraq, born in Baghdad in 1970, as a defendant in a complaint filedbefore the judicial investigator's office. The court, upon being contacted bythe council's media center, confirmed it did not issue the warrant.
MohammedShia al-Sudani served as Prime Minister of Iraq from 2022 to 2026. No officialcomment from his office had been issued at the time of publication.
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