Rasa – The Iraqi Islamic Resistance group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba accused the president of the United States of violating Iraq’s sovereignty and stressed that his actions would not go unpunished. RNA – Along with other Iraqi groups, the Iraqi Islamic Resistance group Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba (“The Movement of the Party of God’s Nobles”) reacted to the presence of Donald Trump, the president of the United States, at the Ayn al-Asad Airbase in Iraq’s al-Anbar Governorate, calling it “as a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty.”
President Trump and the first lady quietly, Melania Trump, secretly flew into Iraq Wednesday to pay a holiday visit to American troops at the Ayn al-Asad Airbase, at last making good on the President’s promise to travel to one of the war zones he has derided as costly blunders.
Hashim al-Musawi, the official spokesman for Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba said in a statement, “Donald Trump, the foolish president of the United States, must be aware that Iraq’s sovereignty came with blood and the [American] military bases have no place in this country of resistance and martyrs.”
al-Musawi continued, “The government has a duty to expel American troops because their presence is a violation of the country’s sovereignty. Trump wants to weaken Iraq’s sovereignty from the Ayn al-Asad Airbase, but we will not allow it at any cost.”
The spokesman for Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba stressed that the violation of Iraqi sovereignty by Trump “will not go unpunished.”
“We will not allow Iraq to be a base for threats against neighbouring countries and Trump’s insults against the sovereignty of Iraq will not go unanswered,” the statement said.
Speaking at the airbase, he said that the United States was not about to retreat from Iraq.
The president of the United States further reiterated his decision to withdraw American troops from Syria and said, “The United States shouldn’t be doing the fighting for every nation on earth. Not being reimbursed in many cases, if at all.”
Referring to the defeat of Daesh, Trump said “we’ve knocked them silly” and the caliph has gone and had no plans to pull troops from Iraq and suggesting that if necessary, the United States would carry out its operations in Syria from its military bases in Iraq.
The secret trip of the president of the United States to Iraq was met with a strong response by its officials and various Iraqi groups called for the withdrawal of the country’s military.
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