Tehran: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Thursday welcomed the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq as a “historic victory” and referred to as for American troops to depart the Center East.
The Revolutionary Guards “congratulate the proud nation of Iraq, the united entrance of the Islamic Resistance, and the revolutionary fighters of the Islamic world on this historic victory,” the guards mentioned in a press release carried by their official media.
On Wednesday the US-led coalition that deployed to Iraq and Syria in 2014 to struggle the Islamic State (IS) group formally concluded its mission and withdrew.
IS, which seized giant swathes of each nations and dedicated massacres and atrocities, was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019, however coalition forces stayed on to battle the group’s remnants.
“The US should depart the area and entrust the administration of safety to the nations themselves,” mentioned the assertion by the Revolutionary Guards, the ideological arm of Iran’s navy.
“Twenty years of occupation demonstrated that the US presence introduced no safety; slightly, it was the very supply of insecurity, terrorism, and instability in West Asia,” it added.
Baghdad and Washington agreed in 2024 to wind down the coalition’s mission, and its troops withdrew progressively from bases throughout the nation, limiting their presence to the autonomous northern Kurdistan area.
The Iraqi authorities says the coalition’s withdrawal removes the excuse highly effective Iran-backed militant factions have used to retain their weapons.
On Thursday, Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi introduced June 30 as a brand new deadline for armed factions to show over their weapons to the state.
