BREAKING: US citizens ordered to leave Iraq after airstrike kills Iranian general
In a statement, the embassy said: ‘US citizens should depart via airline while possible, and failing that, to other countries via land.’
After the general’s death, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr tweeted: ‘I, as the official of the Iraqi National Resistance, give an order to the readiness of the Mujahideen, especially the Imam Mahdi Army and the Promised Today Brigade and whoever commands our order from the national disciplined factions to be fully prepared to protect Iraq.’The words ‘death to America’ are painted on the ground in Baghdad Today graffiti reading ‘death to America’ could be seen painted on the ground in Baghdad.
He described Soleimani, who was Iran’s second in command, as the ‘international face of resistance’ and declared three days of public mourning for the general. Iran has also summoned the Swiss charges d’affaires, who represents US interests in Tehran, to protest the killing. The country’s state television called Trump’s order to kill Soleimani ‘the biggest miscalculation by the US’ since the Second World War.
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