First on Fox – a group of young Iraqi youths launched an initiative called “Only Iraq” with the aim of having better relations with the USA and eliminate Iranian militia Keep Iraq.
The campaign, which included the publication of stickers printed with the Iraqi flag and set pictures of the Militia leader in Iraq, was the basic initiative launched by young people to empower the rule of the law and the construction of a democratic and state based in Iraq, regardless of Iranian influence.
Fox News Digital spoke exclusively with one of the activists who led a recent effort, Muqtada al-Tamimi, about his experience of social activism, their goals for the future of Iraq and abductions due to his activity of sounding alarm on Iranian influence.
The impaired Iran has an Iraq that wants to suppress extremists supported by Tehran in the country
Delivery drives a motorcycle along the road in Baghdad on October 7, 2024, past Bilbords shown by Iran and Hezbollah leaders. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP via Getty Images)
“We, as activists, suffer the most from Iran’s influence over Iraq. Many of us were abducted and taken to illegal detention centers governed by Iranian militia. Some were killed,” Al -Tami, who is a businessman in the late 20th, said, said is for Fox News Digital through his interpreter.
Al-Tamimi and some of his fellow activists abducted armed groups aligned with Iranian and were tortured for five days. They were bound, abused, tortured and had their phones and personal information seized without any legal document or judicial signature who proved they had the right to access these documents.
“We as activists are persecuted for simply trying to raise our own flag, Iraqi Flag, “Al-Tamimi regretted.
Al-Tamimi said that the Iranian militia was impunity for and not respecting the Iraqi constitution or Iraqi rights as citizens.
A poster called “Iraq and only for Iraq” has issued a new movement that seeks to free the land of Iranian influence.
“People who are most damaging to Iranian militia are people like us who invite peace and coexistence in Iraq and with our neighboring countries,” he said.
Al-Tamimi and his fellow activists want a strong Iraq who has a stable and integrated economy with the west.
“We believe that the Iraqi alliance with the West would make Iraq stronger, stable and prosperous.”
Al-Tamimi and the desire of his associates to remove Iranian influence and move Iraq closer Now and west is what leaders in Tehran are most afraid of.
The basis for activism was first laid in 2021 when 312 Iraqi from Shi’a and Sunni communities were built in Erbil at a conference that the Center for Peace of Communication (CPC) made it easier and invited to peace and normalization with Israel. Once a conference was expanded to international media, Iranian militia supported death threats, and the Iraqi government issued orders for the organizers of the conference. CPC has taken measures to protect all participants from prison or destroyed.
“The movement only in Iraq talks about Iraqi demand for peace, development and end of Iranian dominance. We want these young men and women of God to change the ride and hope that they will do everything they can now to help them,” “CPC founder Joseph Braude told Fox News Digital.
More than 300 Iraqis participate in the conference to discuss the normalization of the relationship between Baghdad and Israel, in Arbil, the capital of the autonomous region of Northern Iraq, September 24, 2021. (Safin Hamid/AFP via Getty Images)
Iraq became a central battlefield for regional domination between US and coalition forces and Iran. Tehran uses allies in Iraq for perform your regional influence and also undermine Iraqi sovereignty through different proxy forces.
Islamic resistance of Iraq is a group of armed factions of Islamic resistance under the auspices of the Iranian “axis of resistance”. These groups were the most difficult to manage the Iraqi government and were responsible for the attack in which they killed three members of the US service in Jordan in January 2024.
Iri was involved in armed operations against Israel and US coalition forces from October 7th. Also, which also operated in Iraq, the mobilization forces (PMF), which were formed in 2014 in the fight against ISIS.
Iraq only supports US forces on Iraqi soil, even if the status of 2,500 soldiers in the country remains uncertain.
The photo of Iranian leaders is held by a member of the Islamic Iraq movement, a faction of popular mobilization forces during a meeting in Baghdad on April 5, 2024. (Lateef/AFP martai via Getty Images)
“The American presence in Iraq does not contradict the strong Iraq at all, but the opposite. A good relationship with the United States means a strong Iraq.”
Al-Tamimi said he understood and appreciated the great price that US forces had paid in adherence to Iraq’s stability and security of the 2003 invasion.
One aspect of their platform that can raise their eyebrows is their recognition of the place of Israel in Middle East and their desire for closer relationships with Israel.
“Israel is a great country and has a great culture. We share a lot of geography with them and as we look and seek a strong Iraq, we have to look for a strong partnership with Earth like Israel, if necessary.”
Al-Tamimi also notes that the everyday Iraqis suffered and paid a high price because of the alliance between Iraq and Iran. Physical infrastructure was destroyed and the Iranian interference was undermined by state institutions. Use of Iranian influence will help Iraq, in their view, ultimately become more secure and prosperous.
“We think we will once have a strong relationship with Israel and the United States, we will have a strong Iraq.”
Al-Tamimi also sees positive signs for Iraq and the Middle East after the fall of the longtime dictator Bashar Al-Assad in Syria.
“We believe that the removal of the Assad regime is a very good step to undermine Iranian influence in the region and gives us a irradiated hope for better changes in the region.”
