Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Picture: AFP PHOTO/HO/IRANIAN SUPREME LEADER'S WEBSITEIran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called on Iraq to demand US troops leave “as soon as possible”, warning that Washington is plotting to remove the government in Baghdad.
“The current government and parliament in Iraq and the political figures are not what the US desires; they plot to remove them from the political scene of Iraq,” he said, according to his official website. Iran has close but complicated ties with Iraq, with significant influence among its Shiite political groups.
Tehran dispatched military advisers and equipment along with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps elite Qods Force commander Qasem Soleimani to prevent IS jihadists from approaching its western borders.According to The Wall Street Journal, Washington is planning to designate the Revolutionary Guards as a foreign terrorist organisation , an unprecedented step that would escalate tensions between the two countries.
“#NetanyahuFirsters who have long agitated for FTO designation of the IRGC fully understand its consequences for US forces in the region,” Zarif said on Twitter, referring to supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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