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Resistance group warns it could ‘discipline’ Biden’s pick for Iraq ambassador

Wednesday, 21 August 2024 10:28 PM [ Last Update: Wednesday, 21 August 2024 10:32 PM ]

Tracey Ann Jacobson, US President Joe Biden’s nominee for Washington’s ambassador to Baghdad

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.”

Military action ‘necessary’ to expel US occupation forces from Iraq: Resistance leader

The leader of the Iraqi Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq resistance group says military action is “obligatory and necessary” in order to expel American occupation forces from Iraq.

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.

Ain al-Assad attack marks new phase of 'escalation’ against American bases: Iraqi resistance

Iraq’s Islamic Resistance says a recent attack on the US-occupied Ain al-Assad Airbase in western Iraq marks a ”new phase of escalation against American bases.”

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.

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