After calling for cutting funding to Baghdad, US representative: Let’s make Iraq great again
After calling for cutting funding to Baghdad, US representative: Let’s make Iraq great again
2025-02-28 04:45
Shafaq News/ US Republican Representative Joe Wilson called for “making Iraq great again” and stopping Iran’s control over it, after his previous calls to stop funding Iraq, according to the American Fox News channel.
The American report, which was translated by Shafaq News Agency, explained that Wilson, who is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the US House of Representatives, published a tweet on the “X” platform, in which he said, “Make Iraq great again,” accompanied by a picture of the Iraqi flag.
The report noted that many people commented on Representative Wilson’s tweet, including one who wrote to him saying, “America first? ” , while another commented saying, “Forget Iraq and worry about the Americans.”
The report indicated that “Representative Wilson spoke publicly on social media about various foreign countries, including Iraq and Iran, where he criticized Tehran’s control over Baghdad, and repeatedly used the phrase “liberate Iraq from Iran.”
The report quoted Wilson as saying in previous positions, “Iran runs the Iraqi government, as well as the army, judiciary, police and banks.”
In a previous post, Wilson said that “the great people of Iraq, of all religions and ethnicities, are the heirs of a great civilization, and deserve better than to be ruled by a terrorist regime in Iran,” criticizing the former Joe Biden administration’s abandonment of the non-sectarian protest movement in Iraq, adding that “we must empower the Iraqi people to make Iraq great again and liberate Iraq from Iran.”
The report also mentioned Wilson’s previous publications, in which he called for “stopping funding for Iraq” and “cutting off all aid to Iraq as long as Iran runs it.”
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