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Some of the largest Iran-affiliated armed factions in Iraq are willing to disarm to avoid a conflict with the United States, Reuters reported on April 7.
Citing ten senior commanders and Iraqi officials, the news agency said that the move is meant to defuse tensions after repeated warnings issued privately by U.S. officials to the Iraqi government since President Donald Trump took power in January.
Washington told Baghdad that the factions could be targeted with strikes if they refuse to disarm, according to the sources.
Izzat al-Shahbndar, a senior Shiite Muslim politician close to Iraq’s governing alliance, told Reuters that discussions between Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and several Iran-affiliated commanders are “very advanced,” and the factions are inclined to comply with U.S. calls for disarmament.
“The factions are not acting stubbornly or insisting on continuing in their current form,” he said, adding that the groups are “fully aware” they could be targeted by the US.
The six militia commanders interviewed by the news agency are from the Kataib Hezbollah, Nujabaa, Kataib Sayyed al-Shuhada, and Ansarullah al-Awfiyaa groups.
“Trump is ready to take the war with us to worse levels, we know that, and we want to avoid such a bad scenario,” a commander of Kataib Hezbollah, considered to be the most powerful ally of Iran in Iraq, said.
The commanders noted that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had given them its blessing to take whatever decisions they deemed necessary to avoid being drawn into a potentially dangerous confrontation with the U.S. and Israel.
The factions are part of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (IRI), an umbrella group of Iran’s allies in Iraq with some 50,000 fighters and a massive arsenal that includes long-range missiles and anti-aircraft weapons, according to two security officials who monitor the operations of the factions.
The group launched dozens of attacks against Israel following the outbreak of the war in the Gaza Strip, and is said to be responsible for a drone attack in January of last year that killed three U.S. service members in a little known base on Jordan’s border with Syria, dubbed Tower 22.
Following a serious threat from Israel last November, the group halted all operations. It later refrained from intervening in Syria to save the regime of president Bashar al-Assad, who was among Iran’s top allies in the Middle East.
Iran’s influence in the Middle East took a serious hit over the last year. Israel’s wars on Gaza and Lebanon left Hamas and Hezbollah weaker than ever. The forces of the Islamic Republic were also expelled from Syria with the fall of the Assad regime.
Now, the Islamic Republic is facing unprecedented threats from the Trump administration, which appears to be preparing to take military action against Tehran’s nuclear facilities.
While the disarmament of Iran-affiliated factions in Iraq will be in a way another blow to Tehran, it could allow the country to preserve some of its influence there instead of risking everything in another confrontation.
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sounds like reuters bullshit. if iran does not get nukes, an air force or anti air defense, they might as well surrender to the jewish monkeys. nobody has ever disarmed themselves in the face of fascist pigs and ended up well
syria
syria’s genocide, claiming over 10,000 lives, is not a sectarian conflict but a deliberate western strategy to dominate the entire region
by fiorella isabel – april 2, 2025 4
framed as sectarian war, the syrian genocide and assaults on gaza and yemen are part of a long-standing uk-u.s.-israeli-western strategy to dominate the region via the erasure of the axis of resistance.
yria’s massacres can be defined by nothing less than genocide, having exceeded the slaughter of more than 10,000 dead souls.
the killings have been showcased on videos of the endless public, mass executions of children, women, civilians and entire families.
as israel once again strikes gaza, killing more than 400 people in the first day of the war’s renewal, and with the full backing of the trump administration which is also bombing yemen, people need to understand that these events are not singular but rather a collaborative effort by the zionist-u.s. empire and its nato partners to annihilate the region of its indigenous inhabitants, fulfill a greater israel and steal all the natural resources
most recently hts militants illegally crossed from syria into lebanon and were confronted and killed by local forces. hts responded by launching some 50 rockets into northern lebanon’s villages full of families. israel simultaneously launched attacks in southern lebanon, violating the cease-fire yet again, with the combined attacks killing dozens of people. in conjunction with mohammad al-jolani’s militants attacking the bekaa valley in lebanon, israeli air strikes have targeted the
same valley in support of nusra front terrorists. the lebanese army was deployed to investigate, prompting locals to launch rockets at the terrorist hts factions. in bekaa, both tribes and the army have confronted these terrorists. additionally, lebanese tribes along the lebanese-syrian border are now using drones to monitor hts movements in response to ongoing attacks on their villages.
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as these events unfold, some may feel embarrassed for having so quickly and eagerly normalized relations with the rebranded western-zionist intelligence puppet al-jolani and his group of violent extremists. others like those in the gulf-funded al jazeera, who have been lying about syria for the last 15 years, simply cannot turn back now and thus continue their lies, shifting blame to assad and his supporters. however, for anyone paying even a little attention, i
outcome was inevitable once the u.s.-backed israeli-turkish-gulf plan to oust assad and replace him with these al-qaeda factions unfolded and damascus fell. it has now been clearly demonstrated that assad’s government, often labeled as a violent and authoritarian regime, was in fact the safeguard against this very outcome. it prevented the current collapse of the former modern, free, secular syria where diverse faiths co-existed harmoniously and residents identified simply as syrian.
on march 6, pro-resistance groups launched a rebellion against the oppressive terrorist regime that seized control of syria two months prior, ambushing hts military personnel in latakia and nearby areas, resulting in the deaths of at least 16 security forces. on the same day, radical takfiri[1] government troops began deploying to coastal cities—latakia, baniyas, tartus, and jableh—to confront what they labeled as “regime remnants,”
o confront what they labeled as “regime remnants,” or pro-assad resistance fighters. this ultimately led to mass executions and atrocities committed against every syrian civilian who came into contact with these wahhabi terrorist factions. most mainstream and international media, which tend to favor israel and the west, have at best dismissed the numerous instances of harassment, assassinations, and executions of civilians in syria as merely a “sectarian war”—implying it is driven by
ethnic or religious motives at worst, they engage in significant gaslighting by placing blame on the former assad government and its remaining supporters.
the problem is not only that alawites have been slaughtered, but also that shia, sunni, christian, and even mennonites as well as other ethnic minorities have been targeted. christian relics have fallen prey to destruction even those who hated the assad government have been speaking out against the atrocities targeting every single person,
child or baby hts encounters, while the mass media continue to talk about this as an “islamic problem.”
sheikh abdul rahman al-dala, head of the center for research and studies on islamic unity in syria, was assassinated by the terrorist hts forces for condemning the ethnic cleansing of syria’s alawites. media and international human rights organization have also understated the slaughters to barely over a thousand instead of the more than 10,000 that syrians and journalists in
lebanon who are getting information from those refugees managing to escape the genocide, are reporting. there are also reports of water and bread being poisoned, a tactic also employed by israel on palestinians and by hts and al-qaeda in syria long before this year. an article from 2019 outlines how isis and al-nusra front, an al-qaeda affiliate, allegedly poisoned the water supply in syria. meanwhile, the bbc has now given a number of more than 1,200 people killed in latakia,
this is so even as the ministry of defense of the syrian government has claimed that they plan to arrest “every violator who committed a crime against civilians on the syrian coast during the military operation and orders that they be referred to the military court and the judiciary.” the account alleging this belongs to mousa alomar, a journalist for the new “free syria” regime. he went on to state that what happened was “sad” and then blamed “assad remnants.
the obvious issue with this propaganda is that the current slayings continue and that the “syrian government,” its military court and ministry are all made up of “former” al-qaeda members. any punishments supposedly coming to these terrorist factions will be slaps on the wrists, symbolic gestures to quell the outcry. it is as unserious as serial killers investigating themselves for murder. we can anticipate that the western-israeli powers responsible for instigating this situation
will quickly intervene, attempting to present themselves as the solution to the chaos they created decades ago, even as violence persists. syria’s demise follows a western-zionist-intel-orchestrated and coordinated blueprint spanning decades
the idea itself of “assad remnants” itself should also be marked as exactly what it is, a western-zionist fabrication meant to dehumanize and diminish the very real genocide of all syrians.
recognizing this as valid legitimizes the notion that it is a genuine phenomenon when, in reality, the assassination of those who supported the former president for their political beliefs is not only wrong and fascistic but also fundamentally contradicts the “democratic free syria” that al-jolani and his western backers claim to uphold. moreover, this perspective disregards countless individuals who do not fit their criteria yet continue to be murdered.
thousands are currently fleeing syria with little and attempting to start over because, if they and their families stay, they will undoubtedly be massacred. no one is at this point denying syria’s internal problems or even assad’s alleged role in misdirecting them, but using the same western-zionist talking points does not stop the lies—it strengthens them. pushing the “assad remnants” narrative empowers the long-prepared ethnic cleansing of syrians as “sectarian” or a valid
punishment when it is infact a result of serious coordination, planning and decades-long execution by the west and its zionist partners, seeking to isolate iran, control the region and expand greater israel. even now we are seeing some westernized “but assad” commentators pretend that the 2011 protests in syria, done by the white helmets and radical factions, were “unarmed” and were met with brute force from the syrian army.
but the reality is that the western-funded sectarian protests from 14 years ago were full of armed terrorist factions who attacked and murdered unarmed members of syrian security forces in daraa. all of this is reminiscent of what we are seeing today and never truly stopped in all of syria’s efforts of opposing the violence for more than a decade. the zionist-western war against syria has been ongoing since before most of us reading this were alive.
journalist vanessa beeley carefully outlined the numerous cia and mi6 interventions in syria in her article from october 2021, 75 years & counting: a history of western regime change in syria part i.
back in 1969 miles copeland, a former cia officer, outlined in a bbc interview how the cia organized and directed the failed coup of 1949 after syria ended the colonial vichy french occupation. washington then ousted elected secular
president shukri al-quwatli, who supported the palestinian cause, opposed zionism, and refused to recognize the state of israel established under u.s. president harry truman’s influence. al-quwatli had also rejected the trans-arabian pipeline (tapline), a joint venture involving standard oil of new jersey (now exxonmobil), standard oil of california and texaco (the latter two now part of chevron), believing it would grant the u.s. excessive influence in syria.
of course, the covert interventions went on as was outlined and exposed by wikileaks via an email thread to hillary clinton from july 23, 2012, where israeli intelligence noted that the collapse of syria and fall of assad would spark a sunni-shiite war that would benefit israel. israeli intelligence also mentioned that, with the fall of damascus under assad, iran would lose its only ally in the region and would thus be isolated.
zionist intelligence hoped that iran would be drawn into the regional war, diverting its attention away from nuclear armament for some significant time, going so far as suggesting this could lead to the eventual fall of the current government of iran. in essence, u.s.-funded israel backed by the west, primarily washington and london, would use its intelligence-birthed terrorist proxies, including isis, al-qaeda, white helmets, and all spin-offs to destabilize syria,
remove assad from power and continue supporting these groups until syrians killed one another. this is exactly what we are witnessing right now via hts and other terrorist factions. the reason why we are not seeing, and likely will never see, the terrorist groups attack israel is clearly because this plan to destroy syria originated in western zionism, with israel as the main beneficiary to the generated sectarianism in syria.the email also mentioned how eu