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Secretary General of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, announced in an interview with Iraqi state television that the truce that ‘resistance factions’ provided US occupying forces weeks ago had now ended.
Al-Khazali explained that the truce was now over because US occupying forces did not meet the main condition of providing a timetable for their withdrawal from Iraq.
The other key condition was that the Iraqi government retake control of its airspace from the Americans, which also did not occur.
The following is a translation of an Al Mayadeen TV news report about the Al-Iraqiya TV interview with al-Khazali.
Source: Al Mayadeen TV (YouTube)
Date: November 20, 2020
Transcript:
Reporter:
“The truce with Washington is over.”
An announcement made by Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, the Secretary General of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement, declaring that the (conditional) truce had come to an end as the two conditions of the truce had not been met.
Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, Secretary General of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq movement:
The conditions were not met, thus the truce is over. So we stress on the principle: our full right to militarily confront the foreign forces present (in our country). The implementation and tactics (of this confrontation) will depend on the developments and circumstances of the situation.
There were two conditions (for the truce), none of which were met…in exchange for the continuation of the truce. The first condition was a timetable for the (withdrawal) of the (occupying) forces, based on a reasonable timeframe. The second was the recontrol of (Iraqi) airspace by Iraq’s state and government.
Reporter:
These were among a range of positions that Al-Khazali announced in his interview with the Al-Iraqiya TV, the most prominent of which was stressing on the principle of the full right to militarily confront (the occupying) foreign forces, in addition to stating that there is (precise) information regarding the presence of a spy within the three (branches) of government.
Between the American and Turkey military threats towards Iraq respectively, Al- Khazali described the threat by Ankara as the greater and more dangerous (of the two).
Al- Khazali:
The (looming) Turkish military threat will be graver, greater and more dangerous than the threat posed by the American military presence; as for the American military presence (in the coming days), it will definitely be contained.
Reporter:
Al- Khazali was keen to outline the reasons Mustafa Al-Kadhimi took over as (Iraq’s) new prime minister. He elaborated that (the common) interest finally necessitated the nomination of a secular, ‘Shia’ prime minister who was ‘non-Islamic’ (i.e. did not practice Islam in the realm of politics), and who also had no relations with Iran but had close relations with the US and the Gulf.
While waiting for the (official) results of the US elections, Al- Khazali deemed the announcement of Biden’s victory a restoration of (American) policy that functioned according to specific formulas reflecting a certain rationale. However, he is convinced that Washington does not wish well for Iraq and the region, because it prioritises the strategic security of the Israeli entity.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I’m sure the American Indians can tell the Iraqies something about U.S. Goverment promises.
It is important to get this straight. Israel and Turkey have always been allies. Erdogan spits out nonsense to his home crowd to make them think otherwise. What happened in Ngorno-Karabakh and in Syria over many years is the reality.
The Israelis have played the Kurds for dummies. They would support Turkey moving into that part of Iraq. The support that the Americans give the Kurds is ephemeral – meaningless.
Erdogan was circumsized 8 days after birth……
Signing a security agreement with the Americans is exactly like signing an agreement with scorpions that forbids the Scorpion from biting and injecting it’s venom.
Two conditions are necessary for anyone to be a signatory to such an agreement. One would have to be totally ignorant of the nature of the scorpion and, with all due respect, one must be an idiot.
They have been breaking agreements since they sat down with Sitting Bull.
You forgot the other condition: being corrupted.
Get your point here, but such a view does not consider the complexity of the situation, such as the differing levels of commitment of Iraqis – including Shia Iraqis – to the notion of military resistance to the Americans.
So if figures like al-Khazali are talking about a ‘truce’, it does not necessitate any sort of tangible belief or trust in the Americans. To the contrary, it should be seen as strategic thinking and practice.
Maybe they can help with the apparently continuous and ever increasing theft of oil from Syria that heads to Iraq….and help to stop the ever more consolidating Kurdistan there too.
The Middle East is rife with impotent military rhetoric. With the will but not the means eviction is impossible.
That also applies to US thievery of Syrian oil and illegal occupation of its Golan Heights.