Iraqi factions threaten to target US interests, vow to protect Iran’s borders
The Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee warned on Sunday that it would launch “severe attacks” on US interests and the leadership of Kurdish parties in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, pledging to protect Iran’s borders.
The committee is an umbrella group for several armed Shiite factions in Iraq, including Kataib Hezbollah, the Harakat al-Nujaba Movement, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, and Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada.
In a statement, the group renewed its warning to the United States and Kurdish party leaders in the Kurdistan region “against becoming involved in supporting Kurdish criminal gangs backed by the Zionist entity, which seek to infiltrate Iran”.
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It said that “arrogant powers and those parties will face severe attacks on their economic interests, companies, tools of influence and military camps in Iraq and the region, which we will turn into rubble beyond their calculations,” according to the statement.
Days earlier, a report by the New York Times said the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had previously launched a secret programme to supply Iranian Kurdish groups in Iraq with light weapons before the current war, as part of a long-term effort to destabilise Iran.
The coordination committee added that “the sons of the Iraqi resistance, who defeated the terrorist gangs of ISIS and thwarted the malicious Zionist-American enemy’s plans in the country, are capable of deterring its tools across Iraq.”
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