Iraqi MP Warns of US-Saudi-Israeli Plot against Hashd Al-Shaabi

Karim Aliwi told the Arabic-language al-Ma’aloumeh news agency on Thursday that the US is hatching a big plot in the Middle-East which will be centered in Iraq.

He cautioned of the US attempts to paralyze Hashd al-Shaabi and annihilate it, and said certain Arab states, specially Saudi Arabia, which cooperate with Israel against Hashd al-Shaabi and the resistance forces will accompany Washington in the execution of its plots.

Aliwi also said that the US is attempting to legalize its presence in Iraq and establish permanent bases in the country after blacklisting Hashd al-Shaabi and the resistance forces.

In relevant remarks on Wednesday, Abdel Bari Atwan, the editor-in-chief of Rai al-Youm newspaper, underlined that Washington’s hostile stance towards Hashd al-Shaabi and its quest for dismantling popular groups in the Arab state derives from their opposition to the US forces’ occupation of Iraq.

“The US administration in an unprecedented demand called on the Iraqi government on Tuesday to dissolve 67 groups operating in the framework of the Iraqi popular forces, while all these groups were welcomed by Washington when they were fighting against the ISIL alongside the US forces. Then what has changed now,” Atwan wrote.

Noting that Iraq’s security and national identity is gradually reviving, he said that Hashd al-Shaabi forces or their leaders have demanded withdrawal of all the 5,500 US military troops from Iraq and are opposed to the US use of military bases in Iraq for possible attacks against Syria and Iran.

Atwan added that Hashd al-Shaabi is also hostile to Israel and is in clear solidarity with Syria, which is another reason for the US enmity.

Hashd al-Shaabi has helped the Iraqi and Syrian governments to fight against the terrorist groups for several years now.