A parliamentary bloc demands that the US ambassador to Iraq be summoned and a note of protest be handed over to her
A parliamentary bloc demands that the US ambassador to Iraq be summoned and a note of protest be handed over to her
2023-12-27 03:47
Shafaq News/ The “Rights” parliamentary bloc demanded, on Wednesday, that the American ambassador to Iraq be summoned and that a note of protest be handed over to her against the bombing of the Popular Mobilization Forces camps, as well as the internationalization of the assassination of the former deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
A statement received by Shafaq News Agency stated that the head of the bloc, Saud Al-Saadi, directed several parliamentary questions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking it to explain the reasons for the Ministry not summoning the American ambassador in Baghdad and handing her an official note of protest regarding the repeated violation of Iraqi sovereignty and the bombing of the Popular Mobilization Forces headquarters in Babylon on Tuesday, Which resulted in many martyrs and wounded.
Al-Saadi asked about “the international and legal measures taken by you before the United Nations and international forums regarding the violation of Iraqi sovereignty by American forces in relation to the crime of assassinating the Chief of Staff of the Popular Mobilization Forces and the guests of Iraq on January 3, 2020?”
He stressed “a statement of the final results of the efforts and actions taken by your ministry regarding the internationalization of the Baghdad Airport crime committed by American forces in 2020.”
Yesterday, Tuesday, the White House announced that United States President Joe Biden had directed air strikes on three sites belonging to Kataib Hezbollah and its affiliated groups in Iraq, in response to the attack that targeted a military base in Erbil and resulted in the injury of three American soldiers.
The White House said in a statement that US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, briefed President Biden in a phone call on Monday afternoon about the incident, and several options were presented to the president, and Biden ordered the strikes during that call.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced this morning that US forces launched strikes on three facilities used by Kataib Hezbollah and its affiliated groups in Iraq.
Yesterday, Tuesday, the Iraqi government condemned the American air strike that targeted the headquarters of factions under the umbrella of the Popular Mobilization Forces, resulting in the fall of a member and the wounding of 18 others, including civilians, in response to the attack that targeted a military base in the city of Erbil, which led to casualties among the ranks. U.S. military.
On January 3, 2020, an American drone targeted a convoy carrying the Chief of Staff of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and the commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Qassem Soleimani, killing them and those accompanying them.
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