Iraqis condemn continuation of US troops occupation

Supporters of the Iraqi Resistance groups and Iraqi social networking websites activists have launched a campaign against the continuation of US troops' presence in their country describing it as an occupation.

They demanded the withdrawal of the occupying US troops on the anniversary of the assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), and their companions who were martyred in a US drone strike authorized by previous president Trump near Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020.

Some of the Iraqi users have posted a picture of "Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah", the Secretary General of the Lebanese Hezbollah Movement, who had said in a previous speech on the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Resistance commanders, the American occupying forces "came horizontally and will withdraw vertically."

Other users also reposted videos of the criminal activities of the American troops at the Baghdad airport and wrote, "America killed the leaders of the field and the defenders of our homeland. This is an unforgivable action."

By trending the hashtag "Invasion of the Devil's Den," the pro-Resistance activists last night (Friday, December 30) commemorated the third anniversary of the martyrdom of the anti-terror commanders and voiced their anger against the continued presence of American forces in their country.

After the assassination, the Iraqi parliament approved a piece of legislation calling on the Baghdad government to expel foreign troops, most notably the US troops from their country.

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