Leader of Iraq’s Assaeb Ahl Al-Haq Resistance group Sheikh Qais Khazali denied the movement’s responsibility for a recent attack on the US embassy in Baghdad.
“The decision of Iraqi Resistance Coordination Commission is not to target the US embassy in the first place,” Khazali said in a tweet on Sunday.
He stressed the group’s right to liberate Iraq and avenge martyrs, but said the group specifies the time to respond, noting: “it is not far away.”
Kataeb Hezbollah also said in a statement the rockets attack on the US embassy in Baghdad is an “uncontrolled” act, calling on the government to take the necessary steps to arrest the perpetrators.
“We condemn the indiscriminate attack against the US embassy, as it poses a threat to civilian lives,” the group said, calling on “the United States to suspend the military activities in the area for the residents’ safety.”
The rockets, which were fired late on Sunday, landed close to the US diplomatic mission, causing sirens blaring within the compound without any casualties apart from some material damage.
Following the attack, the Iraqi military said in a statement that an “outlaw group” had fired rockets at Baghdad’s Green Zone, Reuters reported.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has accused “Iran-backed militias” of carrying out the attack.
“The United States strongly condemns the latest attack by Iran-backed militias on the International Zone in Baghdad. While no Embassy personnel were harmed, the attack caused at least one Iraqi civilian casualty and damaged Iraqi civilian property. We wish those hurt a speedy recovery,” Pompeo said in a Sunday statement.
Source: Agencies
