Al-Sudani demanded the quick withdrawal of American forces from Iraq

According to Fars News Agency, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani said in an interview with Reuters news agency that was published today, Wednesday, that Baghdad wants the US-led forces to leave the country quickly and in an orderly manner. .

According to Reuters, the Prime Minister of Iraq has described the presence of international US coalition forces in the midst of the Gaza war as “destabilizing”.

Requests The withdrawal of American forces from the region has intensified especially after the action of this country’s army in the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and a number of his companions near the Baghdad airport in January 2018.

Several attacks by the US coalition on the forces of Iraqi resistance groups in the past days have made the issue of the withdrawal of American forces once again an official topic in the political and military circles of Iraq. The American attacks have been carried out while the resistance groups are part of the official Iraqi security structure.

The American attacks were carried out after the resistance groups attacked illegal American bases several times with drones and rockets in response to Washington’s support for Israel in the Gaza war. In such a situation, the Iraqi authorities are worried that Iraq will become a field for regional conflicts.

Al-Sudani said in an interview with Reuters at his office in Baghdad on Tuesday: “It is necessary to recognize that there is no justification or purpose for any party, whether foreign or Internally, there is no one to disrupt the stability in Iraq and the region.”

Reuters cited the Iraqi prime minister’s comments as his first explanation of his vision for the future of coalition forces since his announcement on January 5 has known.

Al-Sudani said in the statement that was issued last Friday (January 5/15) following the martyrdom of one of the leaders of the “Najba” group, that his government was ready to end the mission. The international coalition is America.

In that statement, the Iraqi Prime Minister also stated that his government is forming a committee to end the military presence of the American coalition in Iraq.

The Sudanese statement was issued a day after the American coalition killed one of the leaders of the movement, “Mushtaq Javad Kazem Al-Jawari”, in an air attack on one of the buildings used by the Al-Nujba movement. testified

This attack, which the Iraqi army described a day later as a “violation of Iraq’s national sovereignty”, increased the pressure on Sudan to withdraw American troops from that country.

Al-Sudani said in an interview with Reuters that only the end of Israel’s war against Gaza will reduce the risk of escalation of tensions in the region: “There should be a time frame [for the withdrawal of coalition forces]. Let’s reach an agreement that is quick and honest so that they don’t stay here for a long time and the attacks don’t continue.” He continued: “This issue (the end of the Gaza war) is the only solution. Otherwise, we will witness the expansion of the scope of conflicts in a sensitive region for the world that has most of the energy reserves.” Iran will rule over Iraq’s elites.

Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said on Monday that the US has no plans to withdraw troops from Iraq. He had claimed that 2,500 American soldiers are present in this country at the invitation of the Iraqi government.

Iraq, which is the second oil producer among the OPEC member countries, has been among the harsh critics of Israel’s military operations in Gaza for the past three months, describing the mass killing of Palestinians and their displacement as an example of genocide. Is.

In 2003, the US-led forces overthrew the Iraqi government headed by Saddam, the dictator of Iraq, and in 2011, they withdrew their troops from the country. Despite this, the US coalition returned to this country in 2014 under the pretext of fighting ISIS.

Given that ISIS was defeated in 2017 and lost the territories under its control, Sudani said that the mission of the coalition forces has long been over.

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