Baghdad-Sana
Iraqi demonstrators gathered in front of the Washington embassy in Baghdad today to condemn the American aggression against the headquarters of the popular crowd in Anbar province, calling for the embassy to be closed and the American ambassador expelled from Iraq.
Thousands of demonstrators, crowds of martyrs of the popular crowd, stormed the gate of the Green Zone, surrounded the American embassy, burned one of its gates, and wrote on its walls "closed by order of the people" and then proceeded to build a sit-in tent in front of the building.
The demonstrators chanted slogans denouncing the American arrogance and the Zionist aggression, demanding the expulsion of the American ambassador and the embassy staff from Iraq.
"The protesting mourners want to deliver a message to the world exposing the aggressive practices of Washington and its contempt for the sovereignty of Iraq and the blood of its young sons who defeated the terrorist gangs of ISIS," Jabbar al-Maamouri, head of the Iraqi Association of Muslim Scholars, told SANA in Baghdad.
For his part, Salam al-Shammari, an Iraqi parliamentarian, said, "It is time for the Iraqis to decide their fate without foreign interference." The most important step required to be accomplished in the coming weeks is the Iraqi parliament’s vote to cancel the ill-fated security agreement with the United States of America.
The popular crowd in Iraq announced the day before yesterday that its sites were bombed by American planes marching west of Al-Anbar Governorate, which resulted in martyrs and wounded among the elements of the brigades 45 and 46.