Iraqi Resistance Says Ready to Expel U.S. Troops

BAGHDAD (KI) – Iraqi resistance group Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada has announced that it is prepared to expel American forces from Iraq if the United States decides to keep them in the country.

“If Washington insists on not withdrawing its military forces from Iraq, the resistance groups are at the peak of their readiness to expel them from this country’s soil,” said Kadhim al-Fartousi, the group’s spokesperson, in an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.
However, al-Fartousi added that they are waiting for the Iraqi government to close the case through diplomatic means. He also called on Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani to implement the Iraqi parliament’s resolution on the expulsion of U.S. military personnel.
“Otherwise, the current calm will not last, and targeting them will be inevitable,” he warned.
The Iraqi parliament passed a resolution on the expulsion of U.S. military forces from Iraq after the U.S. assassination of top Iranian and Iraqi anti-terror commanders Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in January 2020. However, the United States has kept its forces inside Iraq under different pretexts.
In another development, Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein has stated that the current circumstances in Iraq do not allow normalization of relations with the Zionist regime.
In an interview with Iraqi Alahad TV, the top diplomat underlined that the political situation and laws of the country do not allow the Iraqi authorities to move toward normalization of ties with the regime.
According to the Iraqi foreign minister, the comments on the normalization of ties with the Zionist regime are merely media hype.