US President Donald Trump has said that he has no problem withdrawing from Iraq, but that Iraqis have to pay for its withdrawal, noting that countries like Saudi Arabia and South Korea are pushing to deploy more of his forces.

In an interview with Fox News, the US President added that Iraqi leaders are not calling for the withdrawal of US forces in private talks.

He pointed out that his country built one of the most expensive airports in the world, and that it spent billions of dollars on it, and that Iraq has to pay all of those costs, noting that in its grip 35 billion dollars of Iraqi money.

Trump noted that countries like Saudi Arabia and South Korea pay millions of dollars for the deployment of American soldiers there.

He said in his interview with Fox News that he told Saudi Arabia, for example, that it had to pay money to deploy more soldiers, adding that it had already put a billion dollars in a bank account, according to Al Hurra.

On the calls of Iraqi officials to start planning for the withdrawal of US forces, Trump said, "This is what the Iraqis are saying publicly. But they are not saying that in private sessions."

It is noteworthy that the Iraqi parliament approved a bill a few days ago requiring the government to take the necessary measures to withdraw the American forces from Iraq, after the American forces assassinated the commander of the Iranian Quds Force Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad Airport.

Iran replied last Wednesday to the killing of Soleimani by firing ballistic missiles at two military bases hosting American soldiers in northern and western Iraq, and Washington said that none of the soldiers were hurt.

The American-Iranian military confrontation sparked widespread public and governmental anger in Iraq, amid fears that the country would turn into an open arena of conflict between the United States and Iran.

As for Trump, he considered that the situation in the Middle East has become more tame under his administration, explaining that the Islamic State was eliminated and tens of thousands of his fighters were imprisoned.