MP: Sunni and Kurdish blocs want US forces to remain in Iraq
MP: Sunni and Kurdish blocs want US forces to remain in Iraq
11-10-2024
Information / Baghdad..
Member of the Parliamentary Integrity Committee, Ali Turki, confirmed today, Sunday, that the Sunni and Kurdish blocs want the occupying forces to remain despite the religious authority’s calls to expel them.
Turki said, in an interview with Al-Maalouma Agency, “Iraq signed a security agreement with the United States of America to equip and arm the Iraqi army, in addition to protecting the airspace and defending it in the event that the country is attacked, but America did not abide by the agreement.”
He added that “America has tried throughout the past period not to equip the Iraqi army and not to give it a role so that there would be air defense and a system to protect Iraqi airspace,” indicating that “the American presence is illegitimate and useless for Iraq.”
He continued by saying, “If the American side does not fulfill its obligations with Iraq through the security agreement, its presence will harm the country’s security, especially after the use of Iraqi airspace to target neighboring countries,” noting that “the Iraqi constitution stipulates that airspace cannot be used as a corridor or passage to attack neighboring countries.”
He explained that “the file of the withdrawal of American forces must be outside of political alliances because we see that there are those who do not adhere to the directives of the Iraqi government, specifically the Sunni and Kurdish political blocs that called for their desire for an American presence on Iraqi territory.”
He pointed out that “the supreme religious authority called for the necessity of the Iraqi government being a guardian and protector of sovereignty, which cannot be achieved except by the exit of the occupying forces that control the airspace and lands and have a presence in the form of security cells to carry out assassinations.”
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