The Iraqi Al Nujaba movement, which is part of the amalgamation of Islamic Resistance militias in Iraq, announced on Friday that it intends to continue attacks against US troops in the Middle East. This statement does not address the threats of retaliation issued by Washington after the death of three of its soldiers in the attack on Sunday, January 28 in Jordan.
“We said, we repeated and affirmed that our decision is Iraqi and that we will not stop until we achieve two things: stopping operations in Gaza and the withdrawal of the US occupation of Iraq,” militia leader Akram al Kaabi said in a statement. the leader of Al Nujaba’a.
Tehran leads the so-called Axis of Resistance, an informal alliance formed by militant organizations such as Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels, the Islamist movement Hamas, Islamic Jihad and paramilitary militias in Iraq, such as Al Nujaba and Kataib Hezbollah, among other groups.
The increasingly frequent calls for national unity across the Islamist political spectrum are testimony to the need to find an alternative way to any attempt to return to the negotiating process for the Palestinian cause.
The Shiite paramilitary faction Kataib Hezbollah has been identified by the spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, as the author of the attack that killed the three US soldiers in Jordan, maintaining that it “certainly bore the distinctive mark”.
Two days after the attack on the American military, the pro-Iranian militia announced the suspension of its operations against the United States to “avoid embarrassing the Iraqi Government,” a decision that Al Nujaba said he “respects” but wished “that it be lifted.” ”.
Likewise, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq has claimed responsibility for more than 150 attacks against US positions in Iraq and Syria since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, announcing in its note that it will continue to launch actions against US troops “until their demands are met.” “.
Since these militias began their attacks, Washington has bombed their positions in Iraq on several occasions, killing more than a dozen fighters from Al Nujaba’a and Kataib Hezbollah, something that was condemned by the Iraqi Executive and led it to request their withdrawal. of the foreign troops of the Arab country.
The president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisí, in a speech made this Friday during a naval exhibition alleged that: “We do not want to start a war but if someone threatens us they will receive a strong response,” as reported by the Iran Nuances media.
The Iranian president has assured that “the Islamic Republic is not and has never been a threat to any country” and in reality “guarantees security” in the region. Although he has wanted to distance the Government of Tehran from Sunday’s attack, ensuring that the regional militias that attack US interests do not receive orders from Tehran and has appealed to politics to solve the crisis in the Middle East caused by the war in Gaza, where they have died more than 27,000 people.
