Iraq’s Hezbollah Brigades Threaten ‘Great Satan’ U.S. on Iran’s Behalf

Multiple Iraqi militias known to serve as proxies for the Iranian terror regime issued statements this weekend threatening the United States in response to the ongoing military campaign against Iranian leaders by the nation of Israel. Among those issuing threats were the Hezbollah Brigades or Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH), which lost its leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in an American airstrike in 2020, also eliminating one of Iran’s most powerful terror masterminds, Qasem Soleimani. President Donald Trump ordered an airstrike on Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, in January 2020 after Iran-backed militias in Iraq attacked America’s embassy in Baghdad, leaving graffiti on the premises reading, “Soleimani is our commander.”

Duty requires the Iraqi government, the brothers in the Coordination Framework, and the sincere leaders to bear responsibility and take a courageous stance to prevent the expansion of the war zone,” KH said in a statement on Sunday, “by closing the embassy of the great Satan [US] and expelling the American occupation forces from the country.”The KH statement reportedly added that it would attack American military bases and other stops in the region if it considered that America had “intervened” in the conflict. 

“If America intervenes in the war, we will act without any hesitation against its interests and bases in the region,” the statement read. KH is part of a broader coalition of militias known as the “Popular Mobilization Forces” (PMF) which were active against the Islamic State prior to the fall of that group’s “caliphate” in 2017. Since then, they have been integrated into the Iraqi armed forces, but many remain active terrorist organizations. (Read more)