Reactions to the US attack on the Popular Mobilization Forces/Iraqi Representative: Foreign forces should be expelled

According to the international group Tasnim news agency, an hour after the American air attack on the positions of Al-Hashd forces Al-Shaabi of Iraq, the headquarters of the Central Command of the US Army (CENTCOM) officially took responsibility for these attacks this Wednesday morning.

US CENTCOM said that the forces of this country, under the pretext that Al-Hashd al-Shaabi forces, four days ago (January 20th) The American base in Ain al-Assad was attacked, these forces have been targeted.

In a part of this Centcom statement, it is claimed: three centers of Hezbollah battalions and other militias, which are used as headquarters and We targeted the warehouse and training for firing missiles and launching drones. Iraq’s Seyyed al-Shahada, in response to tonight’s US airstrikes against the Popular Mobilization Forces, stated that the second stage of the retaliatory operation and Iraqi solidarity has begun, and said: Our operation against the US and the Israeli regime will continue until the siege against Gaza is broken and the military aggression is stopped. , will continue.

Reaction of the American Defense Minister

In response to the country’s illegal attacks on Iraqi forces, Lloyd Austin, the American defense minister, said: “Not me.” And neither Joe Biden, we will never hesitate to take the necessary measures to defend our forces and interests.

Iraqi Hezbollah spokesman: We continue to target enemy positions

Jaafar al-Husseini, the spokesman of the Hezbollah battalions, wrote in a tweet: “In order to help our relatives in Gaza, we will continue to target and destroy enemy positions until the barbaric killing machine supported by the United States is stopped in Gaza and the siege is completely lifted.” to be This is the promise of the free people.

Iraqi representative: foreign forces should leave Iraq

Haider Hamed Sabbar al-Mahiawi, a member of the Security and Defense Commission of the Iraqi Parliament, also This communication said: The repeated targeting of national commanders and the headquarters of al-Hashd al-Shaabi puts us in front of a fixed choice, which is the need to end the presence of all foreign forces from Iraqi lands.

This Iraqi representative He also said that emphasizing the need to have air defense has become a national necessity.

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