Nasser Kandil wrote:              Baghdad rocket

• Despite the tension and the escalation in the American-Iranian relationships, the resistance forces in Iraq and Yemen have drawn up their plans to open two main issues and to include them in any subsequent negotiations for calm. The first one is the Saudi-Emirati aggression on Yemen and the second one is the American presence in Iraq.

• Ansar Allah Movement seems determined to continue targeting vital installations in Saudi Arabia and UAE. It announced its responsibility for striking Aramco oil pipeline which is a reserve substitute to pump the Saudi gas if it was not possible to use Hormuz Strait. Ansar Allah issued a statement in which they said that Aramco attack is just a beginning and what was before is not as what is coming next, it linked the stopping of its attacks with the stopping of the Saudi-Emirati aggression on Yemen.

• Katyusha rocket which was fired into Baghdad’s Green Zone near the US embassy is still without a declaration of responsibility, although there were previous statements by the Popular Crowd that asked for the withdrawal of the American troops from Iraq and there were American statements that talked about dangers that will occur in Iraq. 

• The American-Iranian confrontation has not occurred yet, and it seems that it will not occur, but the escalation is taking place and opening all the region issues; where the issue of the Yemeni war, the issue of the American presence in Iraq, the issue of the Iranian nuclear understanding, and the American sanctions on Iran seem as one unit that cannot be separated. 

Translated by Lina Shehadeh,

2019-05-21 | عدد القراءات 1790