TEHRAN (Dispatches) -- Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said Friday a massive march in Baghdad was a "countdown” to expelling U.S. forces. "It indicated that Iraqi people are the flagship on the path of expelling the U.S. from the region,” he said.
Cleric Muhammad Hassan Abutorabifard, who led Friday prayers in Tehran told worshipers that "the legitimacy of the West-appointed puppet rulers in the region has totally collapsed.”