{"id":18367,"date":"2020-01-22T02:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=18367"},"modified":"2020-01-21T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T15:16:09","slug":"mp-us-forces-to-fully-evacuate-iraq-by-yearend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/mp-us-forces-to-fully-evacuate-iraq-by-yearend\/","title":{"rendered":"MP: US Forces to Fully Evacuate Iraq by Yearend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ntDesc\">TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iraqi legislator said the parliament approval has kicked off a process that will see a complete US troops pullout from the Arab country by the end of 2020.<\/div>\n<div class=\"ntText\">\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;We will witness the end of the US forces&#8217; presence in Iraq in the current year,&#8221; Ali al-Qanemi, a senior member of the Iraqi parliament&#8217;s security and defense committee, told the Arabic-language Baghdad al-Youm news website on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">He added that the parliament&#8217;s decision to expel the US forces is binding on the government, adding that Baghdad is adopting the necessary measures to this end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Al-Qanem said after the parliament&#8217;s decision and given the conditions in Iraq, the US forces have no reason to continue their presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">In early January, the Iraqi parliament voted to expel coalition forces over a US drone attack\u00a0near Baghdad International airport that assassinated Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Qods Force Commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of Iraq&#8217;s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), or Hashad al-Shabi, five Iranian, and five Iraqi militaries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">&#8220;The Iraqi government must work to end the presence of any foreign troops on Iraqi soil and prohibit them from using its land, airspace or water for any reason,&#8221; the parliament&#8217;s resolution read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">The US State Department, in turn, stated that any new<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">Following the vote in the Iraqi parliament, the administration of President Donald Trump expressed its keen disappointment over the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\u201cWe have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase that\u2019s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We\u2019re not leaving unless they pay us back for it [&#8230;] We will charge them sanctions like they\u2019ve never seen before ever. It\u2019ll make Iranian sanctions look somewhat tame,\u201d Trump noted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior Iraqi legislator said the parliament approval has kicked off a process that will see a complete US troops pullout from the Arab country by the end of 2020. &#8220;We will witness the end of the US forces&#8217; presence in Iraq in the current year,&#8221; Ali al-Qanemi, a senior member of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":18368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367","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=18367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18369,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18367\/revisions\/18369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}