{"id":1277,"date":"2017-10-24T12:17:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/abadi-defends-role-of-pmu-at-meeting-with-tillerson\/"},"modified":"2017-10-24T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T12:17:43","slug":"abadi-defends-role-of-pmu-at-meeting-with-tillerson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/abadi-defends-role-of-pmu-at-meeting-with-tillerson\/","title":{"rendered":"Abadi defends role of PMU at meeting with Tillerson"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi defended the role of a paramilitary force at a meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday in Baghdad.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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\n\tTillerson arrived on Monday hours after the Iraqi government rejected his call to send home the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), a force that helped defeat Daesh and take the Kurdish-held city of Kirkuk, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn his opening remarks at the meeting with Tillerson, Abadi said Popular Mobilization \u201cis part of the Iraqi institutions,\u201d rejecting accusations that it is acting as an Iranian proxy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cPopular Mobilization fighters should be encouraged because they will be the hope of country and the region,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\n\tIraq is one of the few countries allied closely to both the United States and Iran, and Tillerson\u2019s effort to drive a wedge between Baghdad and Tehran appeared to have backfired, drawing a sharp statement from the prime minister\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

\n\tTillerson visited Iraq a day after a rare joint meeting with Abadi and Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Salman in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter that meeting, he called on Iraq to halt the work of the paramilitary units, which have operated alongside government troops in battles against Daesh terrorists and, since last week, in a lightning advance that seized the oil city of Kirkuk from Kurdish security forces.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt his meeting with Abadi in Baghdad, Tillerson urged the Iraqi government and Masoud Barzani\u2019s Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil to resolve their conflict on Kurdish self-determination and disputed territories through dialogue.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are concerned and a bit sad,\u201d Tillerson said. \u201cWe have friends in Baghdad and friends in Erbil, and we encourage all parties to enter into discussion … and all differences can be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIranian militias that are in Iraq, now that the fight against Daesh and ISIS is coming to a close, those militias need to go home,\u201d Tillerson said on Sunday in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbadi\u2019s office responded sharply.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNo party has the right to interfere in Iraqi matters,\u201d a statement from his office read. It did not cite the prime minister himself but a \u201csource\u201d close to him. It referred to the mainly Shia Popular Mobilization as \u201cpatriots\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the groups within Popular Mobilization Units, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, reacted to Tillerson\u2019s comment by saying it would be Americans who will be forced to leave Iraq.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u201cYour forces should get ready to get out of our country once the excuse of Daesh\u2019s presence is over,\u201d said Asaib\u2019s leader, Sheikh Qais al-Khazali, according to the group\u2019s TV channel, al-Aahd.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe international battle against Daesh terrorists in northern Iraq since 2014 saw the United States and Iran effectively fighting on the same side, with both supporting the Iraqi government against the terrorists.<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Reuters, Washington has 5,000 troops in Iraq and provided air support, training and weapons to Iraqi government forces. At the same time, Iran armed, trained and advised Shia paramilitaries that often fought alongside the army.<\/p>\n

\n\tIranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed Tillerson\u2019s remarks. The paramilitaries could not go home because \u201cthey are at home\u201d already, he was quoted as saying by the state news agency IRNA.<\/p>\n

\n\tAbadi has asserted his authority with the defeat of Daesh in Mosul and the Iraqi Army\u2019s sweep through Kirkuk and other areas that were held by the Kurds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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