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Can Iraq End US Occupation?

Press TV interview with Kevin Barrett Iranian President Raisi (meeting with Iraqi leaders): “We do not consider the presence of foreign forces and foreigners in the region to be useful. The presence of the US disturbs the security of the region.” As of March 20, 2023, the number of American forces in Iraq is estimated at approximately 2,500 soldiers deployed mainly in Al Asad Airbase. In 2020 the Iraqi parliament passed a bill ordering the US to pull out of Iraq. The US has continued to ignore it. More recent Press TV videos: Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has vowed retaliation…

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Kabul Was Worse than Saigon—Baghdad Will Be Worse than Kabul

Press TV A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps says Americans will have to leave Iraq in a more humiliating manner than the way they left Afghanistan. Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, pointed out that every US ship in the region is now a sitting duck, as are the military bases built to threaten Iran on behalf of Israel—bases that are now, in essence, hostages.

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Iraq to US: “What part of ‘GO HOME’ don’t you understand?”

www.PressTV.ir The Iraqi prime minister says his country no longer needs American combat troops, and a formal time frame for their withdrawal would depend on the outcome of his talks with US officials. In an interview, Mustafa al-Kadhimi said the American withdrawal schedule would be based on the needs of Iraqi forces. Al-Kadhimi, who is set to meet with US president Joe Biden in Washington on Monday, underlined that the Iraqi army is capable of conducting its own independent operations against Daesh terrorists. However, the premier said, Iraq will still ask for the US help for training and military intelligence…

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US War Criminals Genociding Iraq Whine About Iran

The US is guilty of genocide in Iraq.  But they’re trying to distract the world by whining and lying about Iran. Press TV: Iran has denied any involvement in the recent attacks against the US-occupied military bases in Iraq, but at the same time denounced the American airstrikes against Iraqi forces as a violation of international law.

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US War Criminals Must Obey Iraqi Law and Leave Iraq!

The Iraqi parliament expelled all US forces more than a year ago. They were war criminals before, guilty of the supreme war crime of Aggression, and now they are doubly war criminals. Militarily resisting occupiers is the right thing to do under international law and universal morality and ethics. If the US were occupied, I would be obliged to resist that occupation militarily. Why should Iraqis behave differently?

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Iraqi group: Last week’s rocket attack on US embassy in Baghdad a false flag

Press TV Iraq’s anti-terror group, Kata’ib Hezbollah, has called the last week’s rocket attack against the US embassy in Baghdad a false-flag strike and a plot hatched by Washington. Muhammad Mohi, the spokesman for Kata’ib Hezbollah, which is part of the country’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), made the comments in an interview with the Al Jazeera news broadcaster, saying Washington is the “sole beneficiary” of the so-called attack as it “wants to increase pressure on Iraqi resistance groups.” On December 20, a series of Katyusha rockets landed near the US embassy complex, which is inside Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone. The…

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Americans are in Iraq on a mission of destruction

“The Americans are in Iraq on a mission of destruction,” according to Kevin Barrett, an American scholar and political commentator. The Pentagon on Sunday announced that two US troops have been killed by “enemy forces” while accompanying Iraqi security forces in Iraq. US Central Command said in a statement on Monday that the service members were killed during a mission against Daesh terrorists in a mountainous area of north-central Iraq. The statement did not publicly identify them with the permission of their families, in accordance with US Department of Defense policy. “Well, the Pentagon just announced that two more American soldiers…

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Two Shia Muslims and a Goat Farmer Walk Into a Radio Show: Part 1

Listen HERE Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world, and the Shia school of thought may be its fastest-growing segment. Tonight we talk to two white American converts to Shia Islam—one ethnically Italian, one ethnically Jewish—plus an Italian-American dairy goat farmer who hasn’t converted to Shiism…yet. (Disclaimer: I haven’t either. I’m just a plain ole Muslim.) First half hour: Charles Messina is an Italian-American Shia Muslim. He wrote me: “Salaam Dr. Kevin, I have been very busy on the [NYC] subway talking about Islam, Iran,  & the great General Soleimani, and I want to let the American people know…

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FFWN: Iraq: “US GET OUT!”

Broadcasts live Fridays 11 to noon Eastern on https://www.youtube.com/c/KevinBarrett PSA:  0) Freedom Isn’t Free, Support FFWN!  https://fundrazr.com/f1c4J6 1) Banned from Facebook for Posting the Official Iranian Slogan Mourning Gen. Soleimani https://www.veteranstoday.com/2020/01/16/fb-ban-soleimani/ Iraq: US GET OUT! 2) Trump’s threat to freeze Iraq’s US bank account over request to withdraw troops is pure mobster-style intimidation https://www.rt.com/op-ed/478260-trump-iraq-fed-bank-account/ 3) Iraqi PM says he was schedule to meet with Soleimani the morning he was killed https://www.forexlive.com/news/!/iraqi-pm-says-he-was-schedule-to-meet-with-soleimani-the-morning-he-was-killed-20200105 Gen. Soleimani: The New Archduke Ferdinand? 4) Trump’s Killing of Soleimani: New “Worst Mistake in US History” https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/trumps-killing-of-soleimani-new-worst-mistake-in-us-history/ 5) WITH A NEW WEAPON IN DONALD TRUMP’S HANDS, THE IRAN CRISIS RISKS GOING NUCLEAR https://www.newsweek.com/trump-iran-new-nuclear-weapon-increases-risk-crisis-nuclear-1481752…

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