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Iraqi Foreign Ministry to Take Action Against Ambassador to Jordan over Images with Ragheb Alama

Ragheb Alama with the Iraqi Ambassador and his wife.
Ragheb Alama with the Iraqi Ambassador and his wife.
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Iraqi Foreign Ministry to Take Action Against Ambassador to Jordan over Images with Ragheb Alama

Ragheb Alama with the Iraqi Ambassador and his wife.
Ragheb Alama with the Iraqi Ambassador and his wife.

The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Saturday that it intends to take measures concerning the images that went viral on social media of the Iraqi ambassador to Jordan, Haider Al-Adhari, and his wife with Lebanese recording artist Ragheb Alama.

In a statement issued Saturday, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ahmad Al-Sahaf said: "We are following, with great interest, what has been circulated on social media, including images of the ambassador of the Republic of Iraq in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The ministry draws the attention of the media and public opinion to the fact that it will take appropriate measures in this regard and as soon as possible, in a manner that enhances the values of Iraqi diplomacy.”

Ambassador Adhari and his wife had been widely criticized after the pictures with the Lebanese star spread online. Many found the pictures “inappropriate,” as many Iraqis are sensitive to these kinds of images and believe them to be “indecent.”

The controversy began when Ragheb Alama tweeted photos from the meeting with the caption: “I thank His Excellency the Iraqi Ambassador to Jordan, Mr. Haider Mansour Al-Adhari and his wife, Mrs. Maysam Al-Rubaie, for being generous, for their wonderful hospitality, and for welcoming and receiving me kindly. Meeting you in this intimate atmosphere that's full of love and joy was a delight.”

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Young Mammoth Remains Found Nearly Intact in Siberian Permafrost

Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia - Reuters
Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia - Reuters
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Young Mammoth Remains Found Nearly Intact in Siberian Permafrost

Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia - Reuters
Researchers stand behind glass fencing as they show the carcass of a baby mammoth, which is estimated to be over 50,000 years old and was found in the Siberian permafrost in the Batagaika crater in the Verkhoyansky district of Yakutia - Reuters

Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years.

The creature, resembling a small elephant with a trunk, was recovered from the Batagaika crater, a huge depression more than 80 metres (260 feet) deep which is widening as a result of climate change.

The carcass, weighing more than 110 kg (240 pounds), was brought to the surface on an improvized stretcher, said Maxim Cherpasov, head of the Lazarev Mammoth Museum Laboratory in the city of Yakutsk, according to Reuters.

He said the mammoth was probably a little over a year old when it died, but tests would enable the scientists to confirm this more accurately. The fact that its head and trunk had survived was particularly unusual.

"As a rule, the part that thaws out first, especially the trunk, is often eaten by modern predators or birds. Here, for example, even though the forelimbs have already been eaten, the head is remarkably well preserved," Cherpasov told Reuters.

It is the latest of a series of spectacular discoveries in the Russian permafrost. Last month, scientists in the same vast northeastern region - known as Sakha or Yakutia - showed off the 32,000-year-old remains of a tiny sabre-toothed cat cub, while earlier this year a 44,000-year-old wolf carcass was uncovered.