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Iraqi Foreign Minister pledges positive outcome from security measures taken to stop attacks against the GreenZone
2020-10-04
[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Iraqi FM, U.S. counterpart tackle embassy withdrawal from Baghdad

[THEBAGHDADPOST] Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein held a phone call with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday to discuss bilateral ties as well as Washington’s decision to withdraw its embassy from Baghdad.

In a blurb, Hussein expressed concern about the pullout of the embassy decision saying that despite being a sovereign decision on the US side, it may lead to results that are not in the interest of the Iraqi people."
Precisely. If you want to be treated like a great big grownup country, you have to act like a great big grownup country. Instead you’ve been acting like a spoilt brat, and Secretary Pompeo no longer sees the point of dealing with your nonsense.
Hussein also confirmed that the "Iraqi government has taken a number of security, organizational, political, and diplomatic measures to stop the attacks on the Green Zone and the airport, and there will be tangible positive results in the near future," it added.

Earlier this week, several US and Iraqi officials revealed that Washington was preparing to withdraw its diplomatic mission from its embassy in Baghdad due to the growing attacks by the pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
militias.

Consequently, Iraqi officials warned that a US withdrawal could lead other members of the Global Coalition to take similar measures, which would ultimately harm the efforts to defeat ISIS.
We’ve defeated them for you twice, once when they were Al Qaeda in Iraq, and the second time under the current name. Clearly it isn’t that difficult, especially since we’ve been training you in the skills needed to accomplish it since we overthrew Saddam Hussein for you in 2003.
According to the blurb, Hussein and Pompeo discussed various future possibilities for the status of diplomatic missions in Baghdad, adding that Pompeo promised to take what was discussed into consideration.
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