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May 28. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Shiite cleric Muqtada al Sadr, one of the most influential figures in Iraq, called this Tuesday for the closure of the United States Embassy in Baghdad as a result of Sunday’s attack by Israel against a camp for displaced people in the city of Rafah, which It left at least 45 dead and about 250 injured.
Al Sadr has urged the Iraqi authorities to expel “by diplomatic means” and “without bloodshed” the “American fool”, in reference to the ambassador that Washington has in Baghdad, according to a statement that the cleric has shared on his account. social network
“These non-violent methods will be more damaging and deterrent to the United States, depriving them of any excuse to destabilize the security of Iraq and its people,” said the Shiite cleric.
Their request is based on the “insolence” that the United States has been showing both in relation to the “genocide” that Israel is committing in the Gaza Strip, as well as its support for Israeli attempts to expel Palestinians from their lands, those he has defined as “owners of the Gazan homeland.”
It is not the first time that Al Sadr has called for the closure of the US Embassy in the Iraqi capital after the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip. The first time was on October 27, 2023, when the military offensive on the Palestinian enclave had just begun.
Although he has moved away from the country’s political front line in recent months, the cleric continues to have an extraordinary capacity for mobilization, as demonstrated by the call in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square to which tens of thousands of people attended to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza just days after the start of the offensive.
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