Hezbollah slams ‘Great Satan US-led’ terror in Iraq

Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement, Hezbollah has strongly condemned a new spate of terrorist attacks in Iraq that killed scores of people and left many more wounded in a single day, Press TV reports.

“A new series of terrorist crimes has been committed by the evil, criminal, black hands against the sons of Iraq, which led to the spread of death and destruction in many cities and the killing and wounding of hundreds of people,” Hezbollah said in a statement on Thursday.

The Lebanese resistance movement blamed on the United States, and described it as an act of vengeance over Washington’s eventual withdrawal from Iraq after nine years of costly war in the country.

“These crimes are the new face of the American project of vengeance after the miserable defeat of the occupation forces which led to their humiliating withdrawal from Iraq,” the statement noted.

“The terrorists who committed these horrible crimes, those who planned and executed, are merely cheap tools in the hands of the Americans,” it added.

The Islamic movement called for further solidarity among the Iraqi people and warned them against the “infernal plot.”

Hezbollah said the grizzly bombings, particularly as some of these blasts targeted pilgrims visiting holy sites, were to create sedition and discord amongst the Iraqi nation in order to serve the foreigners.

At least 45 people were killed on Thursday on the outskirts of Iraq’s southern city of Nassiriya when after a bomb attack targeted a group of Shii pilgrims walking to the holy shrine city of Karbala.

Earlier in the day, Baghdad’s northeastern neighborhood of Sadr City and later Kazimiyeh in the capital’s north were rocked by a bout of deadly bombings that left at least 24 people dead.

Some Iraqi officials say evidence on the ground indicates al-Qaeda’s involvement in the deadly bombings.