Badr forces joining Iraqi resistance against US, Israeli occupation can be game-changer

By Wesam Bahrani

The Secretary-General of the Badr political party in Iraq described the Zionist entity as "stupid."

“Thanks be to God, that he created our enemies stupid. These stupid (enemies) underestimate the value of martyrdom and think with their cowardly assassinations of senior leaders such as Ismail Haniyeh and commander Fouad Shokor, they are able to end the fire of the resistance and the guns of confrontation against them,” Hadi al-Ameri said a few days ago.

He added that Israelis and the Americans have "certainly" miscalculated and the "blood of martyrs" will serve as another source of motivation for resistance fighters in the battle against the Zionist entity. 

He hastened to add that the decision to expel US occupation forces from Iraq is "an irreversible decision and we will soon release a timetable for that.”

The terminology used by the prominent Iraqi political leader was not surprising but wasn't on expected lines. He has touched on Gaza before but tends to focus more on domestic issues.

Despite having a military background, once he entered politics and as a former transport minister in the Iraqi cabinet, he mostly stuck to internal political affairs. 

Are his remarks a signal that the 20,000 Badr forces under his command will enter the wider Iraqi resistance movement active against US occupation in Iraq and Syria as well as the Gaza genocide?

It is difficult to answer this question. Al-Ameri vowed to avenge the martyrdom of Abu Mehdi al-Muhandis in January 2000 but fell short of his pledge, much to the despair of the Iraqi people. 

On the other hand, we all remember how Badr forces played a leading role in the battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, with al-Ameri himself serving on the battlefield. 

Nevertheless, the Iraqi resistance has made it emphatically clear that the government's lengthy timetable for the withdrawal of the US occupation forces from Iraq doesn't meet its demands nor the strategic patience it has practiced for months. 

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq is also rapidly expanding its operations against Israeli regime targets, more recently, joint operations with the Yemeni military, in a sign of closer cooperation among the resistance groups in the region in support of Gaza. 

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It has undergone three phases so far: targeting the occupation forces in Iraq, targeting the depth of the Israeli occupation, and qualitative joint operations with the Yemeni military, which recently opened an official office in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Ansarallah office was opened in Baghdad's Al-Jadriya district, a well-known base for the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), which sends another message of cooperation. 

The concept of unified operations among the Axis of Resistance members is not a meaningless term. It is a solid reality to the extent that even Washington and Tel Aviv have acknowledged the threat and are scrambling to try and contain it. 

The current stance of the Iraqi resistance is that it has granted successive Iraqi governments time to allow diplomatic efforts to end the foreign occupation, particularly the American one, from Iraqi soil. 

Yet, each time, the US has rubber-stamped what the Iraqi government should have known: Washington is a deceitful party with no trust or integrity and has no intention to end its malign adventures.

As this is the position of the Iraqi resistance, it will make the appropriate decision to end the American occupation as soon as possible, and it is capable of doing so. 

Secretary-General of Kataib Seyyed al-Shuhada (Abu Ala'a Al-Walai), which operates under the Islamic Resistance in Iraq umbrella, says "We reiterate our call to the Islamic world that we are the first to strengthen and promote the unity of arenas against our enemy.”

This was widely believed to have been discussed in a recent meeting between Abu Ala'a al-Walai and Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, the Secretary-General of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq 

The two resistance commanders reviewed the security situation in the region, as well as developments in Yemen, particularly the Zionist aggression on al-Hodeidah. 

Both sides also stressed the urgency of setting a clear and swift timeline for the withdrawal of US occupation forces. They underscored the importance of increasing efforts to support the Palestinian resistance and defend civilians from the genocidal Israeli war on Gaza.

As the US violates all rules of engagement by killing members of the PMU, an integral part of the Iraqi Armed Forces, there is a fourth phase coming, where the response to the US assassinations in Baghdad will be devastating to US troops in Iraq and Syria with effective retaliation. 

The US can't crush the PMU. If one soldier is martyred, thousands of others are waiting in line to replace him. It is an expanding movement that will stop only when the occupation ends.

The Iraqi resistance is also closely monitoring the levels of participation of Arab collaboration and normalization regimes allowing the Israeli and US occupation to use their respective airspaces to attack neighboring countries and has sent them messages, warning of its consequences. 

The Iraqi resistance is powerful. It has the capability to change the equation in West Asia. Whether the Badr forces join the battle for the freedom of Iraq and Palestine from occupation will certainly help but will not deter the path. 

In its statements, Kataib Hezbollah has indicated that it will no longer call on its members to refrain from military operations against the US-Israeli regime.

“The series of targeted assassinations of leaders in civilian areas confirms the inability of the Zionist-American enemy to confront the knights of resistance on the battlefield,” Kataib Hezbollah declared in a statement earlier this week. 

“The enemy's escalation of aggression and expansion of treachery in the region will not weaken the resistance forces in their continued delivery of blows, supporting the oppressed and seeking retribution for the treacherous acts and crimes against humanity committed against civilians.”

More importantly, the statement affirmed Kataib Hezbollah’s "full readiness to continue on the path of steadfastness, the path of Imam Hussein, carrying his immortal slogan: "Never humiliated."'

Whilst the Iraqi resistance is showing respect to the government in Baghdad, it has also made clear that its patience has a limit with Hadi al-Ameri or without Hadi al-Ameri. 

Wesam Bahrani is an Iraqi journalist and commentator.

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