Resistance group warns it could ‘discipline’ Biden’s pick for Iraq ambassador
Iraq’s Kata’ib Hezbollah resistance group has raised serious objection to the meddlesome attitude that has been displayed by US President Joe Biden’s nominee for Washington’s ambassador to Baghdad.
Abu Ali al-Askari, head of the group’s Security Bureau, made the remarks in a statement on Wednesday.
“If the Iraqi government does not discipline the [nominated] American ambassador of evil in Baghdad, we will discipline her through other means,” he said.
The statement concerned comments that had been made earlier this year by Tracey Ann Jacobson, who was nominated by Biden to fill the position back in January.
Speaking before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the time, she had described Kata’ib Hezbollah and its fellow members of Iraq’s Islamic Resistance, which is a coalition of anti-terror fighters, as “the primary threat to Iraq’s stability and sovereignty.”
Askari, however, said it was the US’s “presence and malicious interference in the affairs of Iraq [that] pose a threat to the country and its beliefs.”
He vowed that the Iraqi groups would continue pressing for an end to the presence of the American forces, who are deployed to the country.
“We have no obligation to stop operations against the American occupation forces in Iraq, and everything is subject to the specific balances of the current phase,” the official added.
In 2020, the Iraqi parliament voted in favor of expulsion of the forces after a US drone strike assassinated Iran's top anti-terror commander, General Qassem Soleimani, and deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) counter-terrorism force, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, outside Baghdad International Airport.
Iraqi PM warns over attacks on Syria as Blinken visits Baghdad
'Iraq ready to thwart any hostile plot after Assad’s fall'
Iran warns threat of armed groups ‘not limited’ to Syria, says neighbors at risk
D-8’s role in Iran’s economy after Cairo summit
China slams US as ‘war-addicted’ threat to global security
China ‘firmly opposes’ US military aid to Taiwan
VIDEO | Press TV's News Headlines
President Yoon Suk Yeol to be removed from office
At least 19 Gazans killed by Israeli airstrikes since dawn: Medics
Leader: Iran neither has nor needs proxy forces
US fighter aircraft shot down ‘in friendly fire’ amid aggression on Yemen
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
