Nassar Al-Rubaie, the head of the Sadr Bloc, has filed a lawsuit against Samar Bashir Al-Qaisi, an employee of the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, for her refusal to boycott the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the 79th session of the UN General Assembly in New York on 27 September 2024. According to the lawsuit document seen by The New Arab, Al-Qaisi’s actions constitute a crime under Article 7 of Iraq’s Law No. 1 of 2022, which criminalises normalisation with Israel, as well as Articles 201, 202, and 203 of Iraq’s Penal Code No. 111 of 1969, as amended. The complaint indica…