By ICH & Agencies December 31, 2019 "Information
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Outraged Iraqi protesters on Tuesday stormed
the US Embassy compound in Baghdad,
protesting Washington’s attacks on armed
battalions belong to Iranian-backed Hashd
Al-Shaabi forces, Anadolu Agency reports.
At least 25 people were killed in weekend US
air strikes on positions of Kataib
Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militia group,
in Iraq and Syria.
Hundreds of Iraqi protesters gathered early
Tuesday near the embassy to show their anger
at the US attacks.
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“Iran killed an
American contractor, wounding many,” Trump
tweeted
Tuesday. “We strongly responded, and always
will. Now Iran is orchestrating an attack on
the U.S. Embassy in Iraq. They will be held
fully responsible.” A few hours later, the
president seemingly called for the Iraqi
people to overthrow the Iranians, writing in
a separate
tweet, “To
those many millions of people in Iraq who
want freedom and who don’t want to be
dominated and controlled by Iran, this is
your time!”
Iraqis are rising up against US neocolonialism in their country
The US bombed Iraq, massacring 25 fighters who have led the fight against ISIS
So Iraqis responded by attacking the US embassy
The US took over Venezuela's sovereign embassy. Now it got a taste of its own medicine
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Thousands of protesters made their way into
Iraq's typically off-limits “Green Zone”
surrounding the embassy, seemingly
undeterred by Iraqi security forces, where
they chanted “Death to America,” “No, no, no
America,” and “No, no, no Trump.”
Protesters
broke into
the heavily-guarded embassy compound Tuesday
and proceeded to light fires, shatter
security cameras, and cover walls with
anti-American graffiti.
“The
embassy evacuated its main employees to an
unknown location as tension mounted in front
of the embassy.”
Meanwhile, eyewitnesses said that prominent leaders of the
Hashd Al-Shabi factions were leading the
protests, while protesters began erecting
sit-in tents in front of the embassy
compound.
US illegally invades Iraq. Bombs Iraqi soldiers on Iraqi soil only yesterday.
But you want to cry about the sovereignty of an illegal embassy that takes up 1/4 of Baghdad being violated?
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Iraq’s Foreign Ministry also condemned the
weekend attacks, calling them “a clear
violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.”
“Iraq is an independent country,” said a
ministry statement, adding that it will not
allow Iraq to be turned into “a battlefield
or a crossing point for an attack, or its
territories to be used to target neighboring
countries.”
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