Fears of an Iranian quest to form an ideological army in Iraq

Fears of an Iranian quest to form an ideological army in Iraq



Twilight News

8 hours ago

The article by the former minister and leader of the Islamic Supreme Council, Bayan Jabr al-Zubaidi, in a local newspaper about the formation of an army described Akkadi, angered the local public opinion about the continuation of the war and bloodshed in order to implement schemes that do not interest Iraq, according to Arabic.

"We are fed up with the calls for retaliation and militarization of the society for futile battles that leave millions of widows and orphans," MP Mohammad al-Karbouli said in a tweet through his Twitter account. He called for standing up to the advocates of bloodshed, instead of planning to build Iraq.

The statement of Jabr al-Zubaidi, who was the post of Minister of Interior during the sectarian fighting in 2005-2006, called for the establishment of an ideological army composed of popular and clan factions, amounting to 3 million fighters to counter what he called the forces coming from the seas and the countries under the command of the The region, and the term used by Iranian officials for US forces.

Al-Zubaidi also called for confronting US President Donald Trump's plans, describing these steps as an attempt to counter the next evil, accusing the United States of carrying out plans to expand the circle of influence in Iraq and Syria.

It is noteworthy that the popular crowd groups located in Iraq, was founded in June 2014 with a fatwa from the Iraqi Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani, to stand against the expansion of the organization called the so-called holy jihad.

But the hour of military operations and the absence of a special law regulating the work of those joining the crowd, prompting Iran to take advantage of this vacuum, and to imbue its loyal elements and loyalists in these formations to have the upper hand in moving the military units according to their policies.

The pace of Iranian moves to open up different battlefields in the region is accelerating, coinciding with the widening of the US docket on Iran's expansionist financing outlets.

It is noteworthy that a number of factions of the popular crowd in the province of Basra, had announced the opening of the so-called mobilization forces for the popular crowd, which according to them will include all those who want young people, although not allowed by Iraqi laws to form any military force outside its framework.

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