BAGHDAD- “Clashes may break out with the Americans at any time, and thistime no mediation will help the Americans and it is not like the past,”al-Hosseini was quoted by the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news channel assaying on Tuesday.
He described the US military deployment as occupation of Iraq, and said,”It was the Americans who brought the ISIL to Iraq to have a pretext toreturn.”
Al-Hosseini said that the weapons and equipment seized from the ISILterrorists in the town of Tikrit in Iraq were the ones used merely by theAmerican forces.
In relevant remarks last September, al-Hosseini had warned the US towithdraw its military men from Iraq once the ISIL is fully defeated in thecountry..
He described the American forces’ presence as the biggest obstacle toIraq’s anti-terrorism fight, and called for the withdrawal of all US troopsfrom Iraq after the ISIL will be defeated.
Also, last March, al-Hosseini warned that his forces will target the USforces if they don’t leave the Iraqi territories after annihilation of theISIL terrorists.
“If the US forces refrain from leaving the Iraqi territories afterannihilation of the ISIL terrorist group, the Islamic resistance of Iraqwill target them,” al-Hosseini said.
Noting that the US forces are protecting rather than fighting against theISIL terrorists in Iraq, he said that the Americans have increased theiractivities in Iraq in recent days through their military advisors thenumber of their flights and want to open some space for themselves in theanti-ISIL campaign to be able to render more support to the terrorist group.
Al-Hosseini described the ISIL and the US as two sides of the same coin,and said the Americans’ presence in Mosul is not aimed at uprooting ISIL asthey plan to make sure of their deployment in the region after expulsion ofthe ISIL.
He said that the ISIL has been created and nurtured by the US, and addedthat Washington wants to fool the world again and introduce itself as apartner in the anti-ISIL war.