In a move that could cause chaos... threats to target the interests of countries that support Israel

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[size=52]In a move that could cause chaos... threats to target the interests of countries that support Israel in Iraq[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad/ Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]With the countdown beginning to the possibility of a ground invasion of Gaza, hostile actions may be launched in Iraq against American interests and other countries that supported Israel in the war against Hamas.[/size]
[size=45]A committee began in Baghdad to collect donations for residents of the besieged Strip about a week ago, while Parliament decided to allocate a session to discuss the “brutal bombing” of Gaza.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist movement, threatened US President Joe Biden with an unexpected “reaction” if he continued to support Israel.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr's supporters demonstrated last Friday in Tahrir Square, in central Baghdad, chanting slogans against the United States and Israel.[/size]
[size=45]The factions escalated their rhetoric against Washington last week, following the Hamas movement’s storming of Israel’s borders as part of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood.”[/size]
[size=45]Bloggers close to the factions published pictures of leaders of armed groups wearing military uniforms, which they said were taken in an operations room in Lebanon near the border with Israel.[/size]
[size=45]The announcement of the factions’ intervention in the Palestinian situation threatens to target those groups by Israel, as happened several years ago on the border with Syria.[/size]
[size=45]But information was received by Al-Mada about warnings from inside Iraq about the possibility of “these factions attacking foreign targets.”[/size]
[size=45]This information says that Israel’s threat to launch a ground attack on Gaza “may prompt some factions supported by Tehran to attack the embassies of the United States and Britain and other countries that support Tel Aviv.”[/size]
[size=45]As a result, the Joint Operations Command of the Ministry of Defense directed to strengthen security measures at the embassies in Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]In an appeal addressed to the Police Directorate for the Protection of Embassies and Diplomats, he stressed the need to strengthen security measures at embassies, “whose countries had a negative stance on the Palestinian issue due to what happened in the recent events,” between Hamas and Israel.[/size]
[size=45]The information circulating does not rule out “Iran’s threat to ignite the situation inside Iraq due to its differences with Washington, which may worry the United States, which wants the country to remain in a state of calm.”[/size]
[size=45]The US ambassador to Baghdad, Elena Romanowski, said earlier that her country would not “leave the region,” stressing that Iraq “represents great strategic importance to Washington.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr said in a sermon delivered by the preacher of the unified Friday prayers in Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Muhannad Al-Musawi, “Jerusalem is ours, not just a slogan or a chant, and Israel is an entity that usurps our land and sanctifies us.”[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the movement warned President Biden, saying, “Your march towards the Middle East will cause you a reaction that you do not expect.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sadr also called on the peaceful demonstrators in Iraq to prepare and equip the “flood caravan” of water and food.[/size]
[size=45]In the same context, Hadi Al-Amiri, leader of the Badr Organization, said, “America bears full responsibility for what is happening in the Gaza Strip as a result of its unlimited support for the Zionists.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Amiri stated during a speech in Khanaqin district in Diyala Governorate that “any attempt to expand the war, the United States will bear full responsibility for that expansion.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Amiri previously threatened the United States if it intervened in the events in Gaza, before Washington announced sending military reinforcements and warships to Israel.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Qais Khazali, leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq, attacked the local political forces that “did not issue any statement or condemnation towards Palestine.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Khazali considered, in a tribal conference, that the silence of these parties “is either out of selfishness or cowardice.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Khazali said early in the events in Gaza, “We will continue to closely monitor the events, prepared and not spectators.”[/size]
[size=45]Politically, Parliament Speaker Muhammad al-Halbousi, in his first statement regarding the events in Gaza, called on the international community to secure the humanitarian needs of the Gaza Strip.[/size]
[size=45]During his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Al-Halbousi called for working to “not expand the scope of the problem and reduce tension” in Palestine.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Halbousi stressed, according to a statement from his office, “the need for innocent people not to pay the price of the violent and unjustified military attack on defenseless civilians in the Gaza Strip.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Halbousi had conducted an international tour that included Turkey, Serbia, and France, at a time when the coordination framework criticized the lack of any comment from the Speaker of Parliament on the recent events in Palestine.[/size]
[size=45]Meanwhile, the military spokesman for the government, Yahya Rasool, said that “in implementation of the order of Prime Minister Muhammad al-Sudani, “it was decided to form a joint committee that would open an office to receive donations and aid to the Palestinian people at the Air Defense Command headquarters in Baghdad near Abbas bin Firnas Square and organize the mechanism for receiving and delivering them.”[/size]
[size=45]Rasoul indicated in an interview with the official agency that “the Prime Minister directed the committee to begin its work immediately and present its results successively before the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani had stressed the right of the Palestinian people to establish their independent national state on their land during his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Abdullahian in Baghdad.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Sudani, who recently returned from a visit to Moscow and a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, speaking about the situation in Gaza, called for “the need for the international community to take action to save the people there from their plight.”[/size]
[size=45]A debate has prevailed in the Iraqi street since the outbreak of the recent crisis, between those who reject Baghdad’s intervention in the war and those who support the fighting, recalling the negative positions of the Hamas movement after 2003.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Iraqi websites published what they said were new demonstrations in Palestine “praising the days of Saddam Hussein.”[/size]
[size=45]These sites also republished old news dating back to the days of the bombings in Baghdad, including information that “most of the suicide bombers in Iraq were Palestinians.”[/size]
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