Nasrallah condemns US aggression on Iraqi army and Popular Mobilization Units’ positions

BEIRUT, (ST)- Secretary General of Hizbollah Resistance Movement Hasan Nasrallah has condemned the American aggression on the positions and facilities of the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) as well as on civilian facilities in Iraq.

Five Iraqi soldiers and one civilian were killed and several others were wounded in a new American aggression on Thursday that targeted Karbala International Airport in al-Najaf province ,the Iraqi army, police and PMU positions in other areas of the county.

In a statement on Friday, Nasrallah said that this US crime violates Iraq’s sovereignty, stressing that this criminal act will face the Iraqi people’s appropriate response.

The new US airstrikes were carried out about 24 hours after US air raids targeted an area southeast of the city of al-Bukamal in the northeastern countryside of Syria’s Deir Ezzour province and near the border with Iraq. This attack was conducted hours after the US-led coalition, purportedly fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, announced that three of its personnel – two Americans and one Briton – had been killed in a rocket attack on Iraq’s Taji military camp housing US troops, located near Baghdad.

 Battle against Coronavirus

 On the other hand, Nasralllah said that the Lebanese government has announced its priorities  which are preventing  financial and economic collapse. He pointed out that the government is holding intensive meetings and it still needs enough time to implement its plans.

He called on the Lebanese banks to assume responsibility by preventing financial collapse .As for facing the repercussions of the spread of the Coronavirus,he stressed that that is the responsibility of everyone,saying

 “that responsibility to face this pandemic must be comprehensive and collective.”

“The world now is in a battle against an enemy called “Coronavirus” and this battle necessitates that everyone assume responsibility to combat it based on the principle of social solidarity away from politicization, Nasrallah said.

“The virus can be defeated if everyone takes responsibility and plays their part,” he added.

“Any international support to help get Lebanon out of a crippling financial and economic crisis must be free of conditions that hurt the poor or the country’s interests,” Nasrallah said, voicing rejection to financial aid whose conditions violate constitution or national interests.

Hamda Mustafa