Iraqi resistance groups claim that Iran’s retaliation against ‘israel’ will be ‘measured and powerful’.
Sheikh Ali al-Asadi, the leader of the political council of Iraq’s al-Nujaba Movement, expressed his views during an interview with Iraq’s tv.
“Iran is known for its strategy of delivering calculated and significant responses,” Asadi stated. He further added, “The Iranian reaction will match the scale of the aggression on its soil, and thus, it will respond in a similar manner and at the same location.”
The official emphasized that Iraq and its resistance factions will partake in retaliatory actions following the targeted assassinations of Haniyeh and Fuad Shukr, a prominent member of the Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, who was killed near Beirut on July 30.
“Iraq is striving to avoid becoming a war zone, yet adversaries are attempting to enforce this upon the nation,” Asadi stated. He added, “The resistance will contribute to retaliating for the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh and Martyr Shukr,” emphasizing that “the Iraqi resistance is a constituent of the regional axis of resistance.”
Haniyeh, present in Tehran for the inauguration of Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian, along with fellow Axis of Resistance leaders, was killed in an attack on July 31.
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, has cautioned the Israeli regime about a “severe retaliation” for the assassination of Haniyeh, emphasizing that it is the Islamic Republic’s obligation to seek justice for the Palestinian resistance leader’s death.
During another part of his interview, the leader of the al-Nujaba Movement’s political council criticized the presence of foreign occupation forces in the Arab nation, particularly singling out the United States.
“All resistance fighters are in agreement on this point: America is viewed as an enemy and must be driven out of the country,” Asadi stated. “The parliamentary session that sanctioned the removal of foreign forces was attended by individuals who oppose the occupation and call for its removal.”
Referring to the numerous attacks on US bases by Iraqi forces, he remarked, “The resistance realized that the aggressor only comprehends the language of power, so they began to respond in kind.”
In 2020, following a US drone strike that killed Iran’s top anti-terror commander, General Qassem Soleimani, and the PMU’s deputy commander, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, near Baghdad International Airport, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel foreign forces.
Approximately 2,500 U.S. soldiers are stationed in Iraq, with an additional 900 in Syria, according to Washington’s assertion that these forces are combating Daesh.
Although the Takfiri terrorist group was defeated by the Arab countries and their allies in late 2017, the US has continued to maintain its presence.
