00:00And given the context we're in right now, and we've been talking about this all week on Al-Arabiyah,
00:06the heightened tensions between the United States and Iran,
00:09what would a conflict between those two parties mean for Iraq,
00:15especially with these sympathetic groups to Iran that operate within Iraq?
00:19Would that mean Iraq gets somehow dragged into the conflict?
00:25I mean, it's a serious test for the Iraqi political governing group,
00:32the coordination framework, the CF, because they have been negotiating with these groups.
00:38If they could reign in these groups, that they will not raise their weapons and shoot at the U.S.
00:46or try to shoot at Israel, that would be good for Iraq.
00:49Very difficult, very difficult, because at least two groups have announced they will fight.
00:57They will side with Iran.
00:59No interest in, you know, Iraqi interests.
01:03Yesterday, a front organization has no real existence,
01:08but usually when these armed groups want to hide behind something,
01:13they form these sorts of organizations called the Resistance Coordination Committee,
01:23something like this, and it said it will target the U.S.
01:27But it gave a different reasoning, not Iran, but the United States is refusing to withdraw from Iraq
01:36to follow the agreement that it reached with the Iraqi government, which is not true.
01:40But this has been their traditional method of resisting the U.S.
01:45or, you know, fighting the U.S. and Iraq, is that you are an invader.
01:49You know, we didn't invite, Iraq invited the U.S. in 2013 and 2014,
01:55but they call U.S. troops in Iraq as occupation force.
02:00And this rhetoric died for, I don't know, a year, two years.
02:04Now it has returned.
02:06It's time with what's happening with Iran.
02:10Basically, it's a message that they will fight on the side of Iran if the U.S. attacks Iran.
02:20Thank you for listening.
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