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BAGHDAD – Pro-Iranian militias turned the mass demonstrations today, Sunday, on the first anniversary of the assassination of the Quds Force commander, General Qassem Soleimani, and the deputy head of the People’s Mobilization Authority, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, into a trial against the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi, while thousands of cowards chanted slogans against the United States that accused him.
Thousands of Iraqis demonstrated chanting slogans such as “No, not America” and “Revenge.” In Tahrir Square in central Baghdad, thousands, most of them loyal to the Popular Mobilization Forces, assembled the coalition that includes Shiite factions that have merged with the security forces, to also denounce Al-Kazemi, who was the intelligence director. When Soleimani and the engineer were liquidated, he entered into a confrontation with those militias under the title of restricting weapons to the hands of the State.
Prominent PMF leaders continually try to point out that al-Kazemi, who came to power in the wake of the unprecedented protests in October, supports protesters against authority in the interests of the United States.
Iraqis are currently living under acute tension and are closely watching what could happen in the coming weeks between Tehran and Washington.
The protests seem more aimed at putting pressure on the prime minister and preparing to overthrow his government, despite the fact that their main direction is to send a message to the United States promising revenge for the murder of Soleimani and the engineer.
Today, Sunday, the Hezbollah Brigades pledged not to raid the US embassy in central Baghdad. On Sunday, its secretary general, Abu Hussein Al-Hamidawi, said: “On Sunday, the brigades do not intend to enter what he called the embassy of” evil “during the marches and demonstrations that will be launched by supporters of the Forces Popular Mobilization in conjunction with the first anniversary of the assassination of Soleimani and the engineer.
Before that, men, women and children gathered on Saturday and Sunday nights, dressed in black at the scene of the attack, where they lit candles to greet their “martyrs” denouncing the “Great Satan”, in reference to the United States.
“We tell the United States and the enemies of Islam that we will continue the resistance despite the bloodshed,” said Batoul al-Najjar, a supporter of the Popular Mobilization Forces, whom the United States accuses of attacking its embassy and soldiers in Iraq with missiles.
Soleimani, the engineer and eight other people were killed in the early morning of January 3, 2020, in an attack on two vehicles near the Baghdad airport.
