Russia\'s Council of Muftis released a statement on Thursday, which said the attack on Iraq evokes with Moslems of the whole world a feeling of solidarity with their brethren subjected to an aggression. \"The attack on Iraq is an attack on a Muslim country, on believers, which evokes with Muslims of other countries a natural feeling of solidarity with the brethren subjected to the aggression,\" said the statement adopted in connection with military actions in the Persian Gulf. \"We do not give political valuations to Saddam Hussein\'s actions, but he is the legitimate president of a sovereign country, so the people of Iraq have the right to decide on their fate,\" the document said. It is people, not regimes who die in the first place during war, the statement said. The Council of Muftis said the war can be avoided by giving UN inspectors an opportunity to carry their work through. (ITAR-TASS)