{"id":18186,"date":"2020-01-02T06:21:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T06:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18186"},"modified":"2020-01-02T06:21:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T06:21:49","slug":"us-embassy-symbol-of-aggression-occupation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-embassy-symbol-of-aggression-occupation\/","title":{"rendered":"US Embassy Symbol of Aggression, Occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitle\">The US embassy in Baghdad is the symbol of injustice, aggression and occupation, Majed Qammas, representative of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq in Iran said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"body ah_body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to IQNA, about Iraqis\u2019 protests against recent US attacks on bases of Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Shaabi), he said the protests held in front of the US embassy in Baghdad herald the beginning of the eviction of American forces from the country.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of protesters broke into the US embassy compound in Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday after smashing a main door and setting fire to a reception area, prompting tear gas and sounds of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>It came after US forces on Sunday conducted drone strikes on a number of Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah bases in Iraq\u2019s western Anbar province, killing at least 27 members of the group and wounding many others.<\/p>\n<p>Kata\u2019ib Hezbollah is part of the Hashd al-Shaabi. The PMU played a key role in defeating the Daesh terrorist group that had occupied parts of Iraq since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Qammas described the protests as a sign that the Iraqi nation stands against occupation and aggression.<\/p>\n<p>He said the US attacks on Hashd al-Shaabi positions is undoubtedly a move aimed at undermining the popular forces who have always supported the interests of the Iraqi people and defended the country against the Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorist group.<\/p>\n<p>Hashd al-Shaabi is a main obstacle to the US presence in Iraq and the region and that is why Washington seeks to undermine it, he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US embassy in Baghdad is the symbol of injustice, aggression and occupation, Majed Qammas, representative of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq in Iran said. &nbsp; &nbsp; Speaking to IQNA, about Iraqis\u2019 protests against recent US attacks on bases of Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Shaabi), he said the protests held in front of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18189,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions\/18189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}