By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer

The terrorists, who two years ago shed the innocent blood of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani and Iraq’s Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, are at it again in Baghdad.
This time, in an abortive drone attack, these cowardly criminals targeted the house of Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kazemi, who was lucky to escape unhurt.
Although the interim Iraqi Premier, who is unlikely to retain his post when a working coalition finally emerges to form a government after resolving the issue of recounting of votes, is neither a threat to the terrorists nor to the interests of their masters, the reason he was targeted is a clumsy attempt to lay the blame on the patriotic masses protesting peacefully at the Green Zone who on Friday were unfortunately fired upon by some suspicious elements amongst the security forces.
It is thus clear that the three drones that zeroed in on Kazemi’s residence were either launched from one of the bases of the American occupation forces, or by the Daesh terrorists whom the US is trying to regroup in Iraq in a bid to keep the country in perpetual turmoil.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has expressed relief at the safety of the Iraqi prime minister and decisively denounced the failed terrorist attack “by those who over the past 18 years have violated Iraq’s stability, security, independence and territorial integrity and sought to achieve their sinister goals in the region by creating terrorist groups and stirring sedition.”
The Hashd ash-Sha’bi or the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), who are the backbone of Iraq’s stability and bulwarks against US-Daesh designs for disability, condemned the cowardly attempt and called for immediate investigation.
The Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee also deplored the attack on the premier’s residence, calling for the establishment of an investigation committee consisting of experts from the Popular Mobilization Units.
Its statement emphasized that “the attack was incompatible with our enthusiasm for the reconstruction of Iraq following the fall of dictatorship in 2003. We have offered scores of martyrs to protect and defend this country.”
It should be noted that Daesh has used drones in the past for similar terrorist attacks in Iraq and so have their masters the Americans, which means both of them are terrified at the prospects of emergence of a strong, stable, and independent Iraq, which the US will never be able to exploit.
The illegal Zionist entity could also be involved in the latest act of terrorism in Iraq in view of the fact that in the case of attacks by drones it is difficult to trace their launch site and to know who is behind them.
According to experts, it may take years of investigation to identify the attackers and in some cases it is impossible.
These factors, however, should not distract the investigators from their probe, especially in view of the massive propaganda launched by the pro-Zionist western media horns to try to stir up internal sedition in Iraq by pitting one patriotic party against the other, so that the issue of the US exit by the end of the year is left unresolved.
Therefore, the pressing need for all freedom loving Iraqis, irrespective of the result of the recent elections, is to demand with one voice the closure of the centres of terrorism, that is, the American bases.