The US ambassador to Iraq said the Biden administration had no plans to close its embassy in Baghdad and would continue to pursue diplomacy.
Matthew Toller, the US ambassador to Iraq, said in an interview that Washington had no intention of closing its embassy in Baghdad and that the Biden administration was focusing on the diplomatic process to achieve the desired results.
According to the Rudaw website, regarding the rocket attacks on the Green Zone of Baghdad, he said that the Iraqi government has taken good measures to prevent the recurrence of these attacks.
Regarding the closure of the US embassy in Iraq, Matthew Toller also said that there were no intentions in this regard and that the current US administration has focused only on diplomatic means.
He also claimed that groups targeting the US embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone had targeted the Iraqi government, a claim that the Iraqi parliament had called for the withdrawal of US troops from the country, but that the US was paying attention to the demands of lawmakers. The Iraqi people do not.
The issue of the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq while the other alleged caliphate of ISIL has been eliminated has become the main issue of the resistance forces’ conflict with the United States more than a year ago, after the martyrdom of Sardar Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes.
“We need practical action to prove that the US military presence will really end,” Qais al-Khazali, secretary-general of the Asaeb Ahl al-Haq movement in Iraq, said today. “2,500 American troops must leave on a reasonable schedule.”
