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 by AFP Staff Writers Baghdad (AFP) March 25, 2021
Masked gunmen in a convoy of pick-ups drove through the Iraqi capital Thursday staging a show of force against Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi who has proposed a new dialogue with Washington. Militants of the Rabaa Allah group brandished mocking portraits of the prime minister, who is seen as pro-American, and other government officials showing their faces trampled underfoot. Rabaa Allah is the newest and most powerful of a myriad of pro-Iran groups in Iraq. It is seen by experts as a cover for Kataeb Hezbollah which has been integrated into the Iraqi security forces, giving it leeway to oppose the official line. "We've brought out our men and our guns to send out a message of warning... to the American occupiers and the collaborating (Iraqi) government," a Rabaa Allah militant said in a statement read out at the rally. On Tuesday, a government official announced that Baghdad has requested a "strategic dialogue" with US President Joe Biden's administration. The two countries have yet to reach an accord on the 2,500 US troops stationed in Iraq. The Iraqi parliament called for their withdrawal following a US drone strike near Baghdad airport in January 2020 that killed top Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani. Rabaa Allah militants have set fire to the offices of a television station and a Kurdish party, while also carrying out raids on alcohol stores.
Iran's Khamenei insists US sanctions must be lifted first Tehran (AFP) March 21, 2021 Iran's supreme leader on Sunday reiterated the Islamic republic's "definite policy" that Washington must lift all sanctions before Tehran returns to its commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal. "The country's policy regarding interaction with JCPOA parties and the JCPOA itself has been clear," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech, referring to the accord by its official name, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. It "entails that the Americans must lift the sanctions, all the sancti ... read more
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