Iran desperately attempts to retain hold on Iraq

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3 hours ago, umbertino said:

Iraqis want both countries out

 

Despite extreme public antagonism between the two countries, the US and Iran have de facto collaborated in and over Iraq for decades. Iraqis are now protesting against both

 

by Gilbert Achcar

 

 

Truncated article ( one needs subscribe to read it all and I didn't, sorry)

 

https://mondediplo.com/2020/02/03iraq

 

Every time I hear this claim, I wonder two things:

 

1) Now who's claiming to speak for all of Iraq this time?

 

2) How can two occupying militaries hostile to one another vacate a country that has no real government?

 

"Iraqis" demand this. Surrrre.

[Calijim]

Protesters shot , beaten and kidnapped in the streets. Who could condone such a thing? Now what county could be committing the atrocities?

Iran or America? The answer is obvious.

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4 hours ago, Calijim said:

Protesters shot , beaten and kidnapped in the streets. Who could condone such a thing? Now what county could be committing the atrocities?

Iran or America? The answer is obvious.

 

Everyone from Iran to the Iraqi street to this forum knows it except the US media.

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Of course Tehran is going to beat this drum some more, but the reason it matters is they'll increase the tempo through Iraqi puppets as their regime becomes weaker. US media will be happy to cooperate. 

US Forces Should Leave Iraq and Syria: Iran

 

ERBIL - Iran has stated that the US forces should leave Iraq and Syria, a report said on Sunday.

 

The Tehran Times daily newspaper cited Ali Akbar Velayati, a top advisor to Iran's supreme leader, as saying that the era of US presence in Iraq and Syria has come to an end.

 

Velayati made the comments on Saturday at a ceremony commemorating Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's Quds Force, who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq last month.

 

He said that the US troops will be expelled from the region "soon", according to the newspaper.

 

The top advisor further noted that Washington had thought that it could overcome the "resistance" in the region by killing Soleimani.

 

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