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Beirut – Baghdad – Iran picked up on the contradictions on the anniversary of the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, its most important military commander, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, a man on special missions in Iraq and founder of the Popular Mobilization Forces, who were liquidated by a missile attack from a US march near the Baghdad airport, with the spectacle of its militias escalating in more than one country and threats not to be swept away by calls for calm. To a confrontation with the United States.
At a time when his militias deployed their force in Baghdad, and the Houthis carried out a major attack on the Aden airport, and Hezbollah showed its strength in Lebanon, in the words of Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, Iran acted with extreme caution when dealing with the United States in a crucial period of the transfer of power between President Donald. Trump, whom Tehran considers one of its staunch enemies, and President-elect Joe Biden, whom it considers president, round out former President Barack Obama’s policies by dealing with them.
Baghdad, Sanaa and Beirut, in addition to Tehran and major Iranian cities, witnessed large gatherings to praise Soleimani’s role in spreading Iranian influence in the Middle East through his leadership of the famous Quds Force, and the participants promised revenge on the United States. However, Iraqi militia leaders, where Iraq is now the first sticking point, responded to Iranian calls for calm and vowed not to target US forces or direct missiles or mortars toward or invade the US embassy in Baghdad. the crowds.
The human parade in Baghdad was preceded by the circulation of different scenarios and information on the nature of the Iranian response on the first anniversary of the audacious American operation, which claimed the life of the most important Iranian general of the last three decades, and the commander most important field officer of the Popular Mobilization Militia.
Among these scenarios, the elements of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) were dressed in civilian clothes in a controlled demonstration, aimed at assaulting the Green Zone in central Baghdad, with the intention of entering the United States embassy and burning it , after which this act was justified as spontaneous massive, and Iran has no participation in it.
However, the closing hours of Saturday brought many events, including the Iraqi government’s explanation to the Iranians that the United States would respond violently to any attempt to raid their embassy in Baghdad.
Sources who accompanied the negotiations in the last hours of Saturday said that the Iranians did not respond to the Iraqi explanation, which opened the door to all possibilities.
For its part, the government announced the closure of many roads that lead to the Green Zone and the Baghdad Airport, under the pretext of protecting the demonstrations, and the truth is that the objective is to prevent any human intrusion into the United States embassy. .
Iraqi official sources said that the military units responsible for securing the Green Zone have entered a state of high alert since Friday, to face any scenario that includes an assault on the US embassy.
With the arrival of the early hours of Sunday, it became clear that Iran might be happy with its human display inside Baghdad on the anniversary of the assassination of its most prominent general and his most important aide, which actually happened, while adding a little excitement to the scene.
Iran tried to carry out an unconventional demonstration, as organizers anticipated the descent of the popular crowd in civilian clothes to specific streets of Baghdad, posting photos of Soleimani and the engineer in the Turkish restaurant in Tahrir Square, symbol of the Iraqi demonstrations that began in October 2019 and toppled the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi, which was installed by Tehran.
Participants in organizing the mass demonstration said orders were given to all factions of the Popular Mobilization Forces loyal to Iran to send their members in civilian clothes to specific locations in Baghdad.
It seemed that Iran was actually seeking to avenge the demonstrations that shattered its prestige in Iraq and toppled its government in Baghdad, blaming it for the responsibility of encouraging the Americans to kill Soleimani and the engineer.
At the scene of the assassination inside the Baghdad airport, Faleh al-Fayyad, leader of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), took the pulpit and described the president of the United States, Donald Trump, as a “villain” because he directed the assassination. de Soleimani and the engineer.
In recent months, Shiite militias tried to erect a memorial for Soleimani and the engineer at the site where they were killed, but Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi managed to stop temporarily.
In Sana’a, the frequent media appearance of the Iranian ambassador to the Houthi militia, Hassan Erlo, raised many questions about the timing of this open Iranian activity in Yemen and the nature of the messages Tehran would like to send to the international community. , after years of denying his provision of support to the Houthi group that controlled the state. In an armed coup in September 2014.
Yemeni political sources said that the official of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Hassan Erlo, who still did not know the details of his arrival in Yemen and his appointment by the Houthis as ambassador of the Iranian regime to the coup authority, is trying to appear as an Iranian military ruler in Sana’a, at a time when international pressure to end the war is mounting. In Yemen.
