“The Americans try to move the Middle East closer to the red line security situation to have an excuse to continue their military occupation of regional countries,” Mohammad-Hassan Asafari, member of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said Wednesday.
He said that the Middle East is of high significance to the US and therefore “Washington tries to fix and expand its position in the region through any possible means.”
He said that the US leads terrorist attacks and bomb explosions in Iraq public places and added Washington tries to portray regional countries, in particular Iraq, as insecure to find an excuse for its continued presence in the region.
“The US intends to create insecurity in Iraq to again send its troops to the country and plunder all underground resources of this country,” he added.
US-led forces attacked Iraq in 2003 and toppled Saddam Hussein under the pretext that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction. But no WMD was ever discovered in Iraq.
US troops left Iraq by the end of 2011 as required by a 2008 bilateral security agreement between the two countries.
More than one million Iraqis were killed as the result of the US-led invasion and subsequent occupation of the country, according to the California-based investigative organization Project Censored.
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