Senior Iranian lawmaker Fatemeh Aliya has urged the United Nations to take immediate measures to expel US forces from Iraqi soil.
“The UN must break its silence in the face of US reneging on its promise and take immediate measures to expel American forces from Iraq’s soil,” Aliya said on Saturday.
The member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) Foreign Policy and National Security Committee added that the US intends to keep its military and security forces in Iraq under the guise of diplomatic officials, Mehr News Agency reported.
Referring to the agreement by which the US has promised to leave Iraq by 2011, the Iranian legislator said Washington does not want to withdraw its forces from the country in order to protect its oil interests.
The United States and its allies invaded Iraq in 2003 under the pretext of finding the alleged weapons of mass destruction in the possession of executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. No such weapons were ever found in Iraq.
The Status of Forces Agreement signed between the United States and the Iraqi government mandates that Washington must withdraw its troops from war-torn Iraq by the end of December 2011.
“The agreement on the withdrawal of American forces will be implemented on schedule by the end of the year, and there will not be any bases for US forces here,” Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said on August 30.
