Baghdad-Sana
The Joint Operations Command in Iraq today announced the withdrawal of all Iraqi demonstrators from the American embassy in the capital, Baghdad, who gathered over the past two days to condemn the American aggression against the headquarters of the Iraqi popular crowd, which left dozens of martyrs and wounded.
And Alsumaria News website quoted the Operations Command as saying in a statement that “based on Iraq’s obligations to protect diplomatic missions and state embassies within Iraqi territories, the Prime Minister directed the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces to secure and protect the embassy and its employees, and called on angry demonstrators and sit-ins to withdraw from its surroundings and end protests Sit-in and that their message has arrived. ”
Accordingly, all the protesters withdrew and the demonstrations that accompanied these protests were ended, and the Iraqi security forces secured the entire surrounding of the embassy.
The gradual withdrawal of the sit-in from the embassy began, against the background of the PMF's call for them to withdraw, "out of respect for the decision of the Iraqi government."
Hundreds of Iraqi demonstrators had gathered since yesterday morning in front of the American embassy in Baghdad to protest against the aggression against the headquarters of the popular crowd in Anbar province, and called for the embassy to be closed and the American ambassador expelled from Iraq, and a number of them suffered from asphyxia as a result of American forces firing gas canisters at them.