• Iraq.The Iraqi Parliament approves the expulsion of US troops
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If Iraq really wants the 5,000 American soldiers in the country to leave, as Parliament voted on Sunday, it will have to compensate the United States and, in addition, assume that Washington will hit it with sanctions "as they have never seen, and that will make those of Iran look soft, "said US President Donald Trump this morning.

The threat of the head of State and the US Government comes just a few hours after the Iraqi Parliament voted in favor of the withdrawal of foreign forces in the country. In the parliamentary session, the country's prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi , declared that a timetable is necessary for the withdrawal of soldiers from third countries "for the sake of our national sovereignty." The entire initiative is a reaction to the death of General Qasem Soleimani, the most important military leader in Iran, in an attack with a plane without an American pilot, in the early hours of Friday.

Trump did not like the Iraqi demand, although he won the presidency with a program that had as its axis the departure of the United States from the wars in Syria , Afghanistan , and Iraq . Speaking to the press on the edge of his official plane, in which he was returning to Washington from his country club in Florida , Trump said that if the US leaves Iraq it will not "in a very friendly way." According to the US president, if Baghdad goes ahead and tries to negotiate the withdrawal of the Americans, "we will charge them with sanctions as they have never been seen."

Trump said "we have spent a lot of money in Iraq. We have built a very extraordinarily expensive air base [sic] there. It cost billions of dollars to do it. We are not going to leave until they return them to us," he said. Actually, the United States has no air base in Iraq. All military installations in that country are Iraqis. The United States built them because 15 years ago and 9 invaded Iraq. The attack and the civil war that followed destroyed almost all of the country's infrastructure.

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