Washington Summons Iraqi Diplomat Over Resistance Group Actions Against US Occupation
On Tuesday, the US State Department reportedly summoned the Iraqi chargé d'affaires in Washington to deliver a protest regarding recent actions by Iraqi resistance groups targeting American military and diplomatic facilities. The summons follows a spate of drone and rocket attacks on US bases and personnel in Iraq and Syria, which Washington attributes to groups it labels 'Iran-backed.' These
incidents have escalated regional tensions, drawing direct condemnation from US officials who claim such actions undermine stability. Mainstream outlets like The New Arab frame these summons as a standard diplomatic rebuke against 'Iran-backed groups,' implying a unilateral Iranian aggression. This framing deliberately obscures the core issue: the continued US military presence in Iraq, which is a
violation of Iraqi sovereignty and an occupation force. Such reports rarely acknowledge that these groups, often referred to as the 'resistance axis,' view their actions as legitimate defense against an occupying power, a perspective entirely omitted from Western narratives. The US routinely classifies any resistance to its military presence as 'terrorism' or 'threats to stability,' mirroring its
historical pattern of criminalizing movements that challenge its geopolitical objectives. What is consistently left unsaid is that the US presence in Iraq is predicated on a security agreement that Baghdad has repeatedly sought to renegotiate and, in some cases, terminate through parliamentary resolutions. For instance, the Iraqi parliament voted in January 2020 for the withdrawal of all foreign