Iraqi Ambassador to Russia Abbas Halaf said that 2,500 Russian citizens have filed official applications to go to Iraq to support its people in the event of war. \'I have already forwarded this list of 2,500 people to Baghdad, and I will issue visas to these people as soon as I get approval from the Iraqi authorities,\" Halaf told a news conference in Moscow on Friday. \"If such permission is obtained, these Russian citizens will be in Iraq on February 15 to take part in a peace rally,\" he said. More and more Russian citizens are expressing a wish to go to Iraq every day, Halaf said. \"People from all regions call the embassy and my residence day and night. Every day, our diplomatic mission gets hundreds of new applications from scientists, military men, workers, and intellectuals,\" the ambassador said. (Interfax)