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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Iraqi Resistance forced US back to negotiating table<br></h1>
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<div class="gmail-reader-estimated-time" dir="ltr">March 21, 2024<br></div>
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an interview with Lebanese Al-Akhbar, Iraq's Harakat Hezbollah
al-Nujaba declared that the resistance group supports any action towards
the expulsion of US forces from Iraq.</p><img src="cid:ii_lu1vnww00" alt="a7e94b75-fd3f-4d19-abd1-ea300d6dd35b.jpg" width="450" height="235"><br><div><ul id="gmail-content-slick-0"><div aria-hidden="false"><li>
Iraqi al-Nujabaa Resistance movement members march during a
military parade marking Al-Quds International Day in Baghdad, May 31,
2019. (AFP)
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<p>Iraq's al-Nujabaa Resistance movement proclaimed that it would back up any action that aimed to expel the US forces from Iraq.</p>
<p>"We have forced the occupiers back to the negotiating table with our
strikes," Hussein al-Moussawi, spokesperson for al-Nujabaa, said in an
interview with the Lebanese newspaper <em>al-Akhbar</em>, on Thursday.</p>
<p>The spokesperson referred to an agreement between Baghdad and
Washington for the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, noting that the
strikes by the Resistance on US bases have compelled the US to <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iraqi-resistance-targets-electricity-generation-station-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">return to the negotiating table</a> after years.</p>
<p>“However, so far, clear results have not been achieved from the
government's negotiations with the Americans, and what is important for
us are the interests of the Iraqi people," the spokesperson added.</p>
<p>Al-Moussawi also reiterated the Iraqi Resistance’s commitment to
supporting the Palestinian people and the Resistance against the Israeli
occupation war machine.</p>
<p>Earlier in February, the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iraq-s-al-nujaba-declares-operations-against-us-forces-to-co" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Secretary-General of the Iraqi al-Nujabaa Resistance</a>
movement announced that the group's operations against US forces would
not stop until the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza ceases and the complete
withdrawal of the "US occupation" from Iraq.</p>
<p>In a statement, Sheikh Akram al-Kaabi said that this decision is a sovereign one taken by the group alone.</p>
<h2>US understands force, armed confrontation, not negotiations: Al-Kaabi</h2>
<p>The Secretary-General of the al-Nujabaa Movement, Akram al-Kaabi,
declared, on February 25, that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq will
maintain resistance operations to force US forces out of the country and
will not <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-understands-force--armed-confrontation--not-negotiations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stop attacking Israeli targets in Palestine</a>.</p>
<p>Iraqi Resistance groups launched a series of operations last October
in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance in Gaza, who
are still suffering an ongoing genocide. The groups affirmed repeatedly
that attacks on US bases in Syria and Iraq, as well as on Israeli sites,
will not stop until the war on the Strip ends.</p>
<p>Al-Kaabi added that the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has made its
decision to be "Islamic, Iraqi and Resistors," adding that "We alone
bear its consequences and have prepared ourselves for it."</p>
<p>"We will not abandon" the objective to "liberate Iraq" from US
presence and support Palestine by striking the Israeli occupation.</p>
<p>The Iraqi government recently announced that it is in talks with Washington to reach a framework for the withdrawal of the <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iraqi-resistance-drone-strikes-us-occupation-base-in-syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">US-led coalition from Iraq.</a></p>
<p>This decision came following several US aggressions on member groups
of the Popular Mobilization Forces PMF - a governmental security
apparatus - which resulted in the martyrdom and wounding of many Iraqi
citizens. The American attacks also targeted sites operated by the
country's Defense Ministry.</p>
<p>On that note, the leader of al-Nujabaa emphasized that "it is a
delusion to imagine that the American occupier will surrender and
withdraw from Iraq through negotiation," stressing that the United
States only understands the language of force and armed confrontation.</p>
<p>In its most recent aggression on Iraq, the United States assassinated
earlier this month a prominent leader of Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah,
martyr Hajj Wisam Mohammed Saber (Abu Baqer Al-Saadi). Washington later
claimed responsibility for the attack.</p>
<p>Following the US killing of the Iraqi citizen, Armed Forces
spokesperson Brigadier Yahya Rasool said then that US forces "threaten
civil peace and violate Iraq's sovereignty" following a "clearly
identifiable assassination operation" via an airstrike in a residential
neighborhood inside Baghdad.</p>
<p>"Our armed forces have no choice but to fulfill their constitutional
duties to safeguard the security of Iraqis and Iraqi territory from all
threats," Rasool stressed.</p>
<p><strong>Read more: <a href="https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/resistance-focused-on-defending-the-oppressed--iraqi-hezboll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Resistance focused on defending the oppressed: Iraqi Hezbollah chief</a></strong></p></div></div></div>
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