Iraq resistance factions ‘will participate’ in response to Haniyeh, Shukr murders

The Iraqi Resistance Factions will participate in any response to the political murders of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and senior Hezbollah official Fuad Shukr in Beirut last month, a senior Iraqi resistance leader has said.

“Iraq is trying not to be a battlefield, but the enemy wants to impose that on the country,” said Sheikh Ali Al-Asadi, the head of the political council of Iraq’s Al-Nujaba Movement. “The resistance will participate in responding to the assassination of Haniyeh and Shukr, since the Iraqi resistance is part of the axis of resistance in the region.”

Al-Asadi told Iraq’s Al-Sumaria television network on Tuesday that, “The statement issued by the Resistance Coordination was clear and sent the message to the enemy that any aggression will restore the resistance work to expel the occupier. The real enemies are America and Israel.”

Moreover, all resistance fighters support what is clear, he added, that America is an enemy and must be expelled from Iraq. “The parliament session that approved the expulsion of foreign forces was attended by those who resist the occupation and demand [America’s] expulsion.”

He noted that the resistance had carried out the strikes agianst the Ain Al-Assad base, adding that, “The resistance recognised that the aggressor only understands the language of force, and the resistance began to deal with [the US] in the same manner.”

The Iraqi government’s problem, said Al-Asadi, is that the foreign ministry considers America to be a friend, while the Iraqi people consider it to be an enemy.

“The foreign minister must speak in the context of the general vision of the country, and not according to his political orientation,” he insisted.

“The government statement emphasised dialogue with the American side in order to leave Iraq, but the American statement came in contrast to that, which confirms the vision of the resistance factions that the government will not reach a solution that will remove [US] forces, because the other party does not deal with us as equals, but rather with the mentality of an occupier.”

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