What is known as the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, has vowed to file a lawsuit against him, on charges of kidnapping its members in a security operation carried out by the anti-terrorist agency at dawn last Friday in a suburb south of Baghdad.
The security spokesman for the brigades, Abu Ali al-Askari, said in a tweet on Twitter that the Iraqi Prime Minister, with an American arrangement, sent members of the counter-terrorism apparatus "without their knowledge of the nature of the target", to storm the headquarters of the logistical support of the Popular Mobilization in the Bu-Butathah area south of Baghdad, and arrest a number of those inside Megrine.
He continued, "We have completed today all legal procedures, from malicious accusations against members of the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq, and a kidnapping case will be filed against the Prime Minister after he pledged not to repeat what happened mediated from inside and outside the government and from inside and outside Iraq."
No government response to the statement has been issued so far.
And the Iraqi army's anti-terrorist forces arrested at dawn last Friday a number of members of the "Hezbollah" brigades that are part of the Popular Mobilization Organization during a raid in its headquarters west of Baghdad. And government sites.
After hours of arrest, members of the "Hezbollah" brigades stormed the headquarters of the anti-terrorist agency in the Green Zone in the center of the capital, Baghdad, where the government headquarters and a number of foreign embassies are located, including the American embassy.
Al-Abadi’s remarks
In a related context, former Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said that there is no place between Iraqis “for those who carry weapons outside the country, nor for those who serve an aspiring foreigner,” in remarkable statements against the background of the arrest of members of the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades for preparing to launch a missile attack On American targets in Iraq.
"Our brave sons in the counter-terrorism apparatus, the popular crowd and all kinds of people, whoever you fought under the banner of Iraq and won, I invite you to join forces to protect Iraq and the citizens," Abadi wrote on his Twitter account.
He stressed that "there is no place among the Iraqis for those who tamper with security, nor for those who carry weapons outside the state for the intimidating and blackmailing of the safe, nor for those who serve a covetous or cunning stalking foreigner offend our heroes."
The Hezbollah battalions face charges from Washington of being behind the missile attacks that have been targeting the American embassy in Baghdad for months, and Iraqi military bases hosting American soldiers throughout the country.
The frequency of these attacks has increased since the assassination of the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, deputy head of the PMF, in a US air raid near Baghdad airport on January 3.
The Iraqi parliament had voted on the law of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization as a fighting force subject to the Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces after its participation in operations to liberate Iraqi cities from ISIS control in late 2017.