In the wake of the Qasem Soleimani assassination, the Iraqi government has apparently had enough of the U.S. presence in their country.
Sunday, the Iraqi Parliament voted on a resolution to expel all U.S. and occupying forces in their country after the American execution of the Iranian General last week. According to Axios, the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi announced that Iraq “cannot accept” a “political assassination” on its soil. He also called the attack by the United States a grave violation of Iraqi sovereignty.
In addition, Abdul-Mahdi said that Soleimani was in Baghdad shortly before his killing for a meeting with him to deliver Iran’s response to a Saudi request for dialogue.
As The National reported, the Iraqi parliament approved “a five-point action plan that would require the Iraqi government to end the presence of foreign troops in the country, and withdraw its request for assistance from the anti-ISIS global coalition.”
Moreover, “Parliament also called on the government to ban the use of Iraqi airspace by any foreign power,” according to The National.
U.S. Military “stunned” after Trump called for the Soleimani assassination
According to the New York Times, U.S. military leaders were “stunned” after Trump gave the orders to carry out the Soleimani assassination and viewed it as the “most extreme response to recent Iranian-led violence in Iraq.”
Meanwhile, Trump administration officials continue to push the narrative that the action against Soleimani was undertaken to prevent “imminent attacks” the Iranian General was planning against U.S. and allied forces in the region. The White House, however, has yet to provide any evidence to support that notion while.
Some U.S. officials have even made mention that any evidence supporting the “imminent attack” claim is “razor-thin”.