Parliament probes prior knowledge of US-Saudi strikes on Iraq – Shafaq News

Shafaq News- Baghdad

The Iraqi parliament on Sunday
ordered an investigation into allegations that the government had advance
knowledge of the recent US-Saudi strikes on the country but failed to take
necessary precautions.

First Deputy Speaker Adnan Faihan
Al-Dulaimi issued the directive during parliament’s eighth regular session,
tasking a committee with establishing the facts and submitting its findings
within one week.

Last month, US-Saudi strikes hit
headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an umbrella organization
of predominantly Shiite armed groups formally incorporated into Iraq’s state
security apparatus, across seven provinces, killing at least 20 members and
wounding 32 others. US President Donald Trump alleged that the attacks had been
coordinated with the Iraqi government, a claim Baghdad denied.

The PMF, earlier today, also
condemned accusations by some politicians that its chairman, Falih Al-Fayyadh,
had received prior information about the attacks but failed to alert military
units. The organization maintained that its forces had been on heightened alert
for months amid escalating regional tensions, with all units instructed to take
maximum security precautions two days before the strikes.

The Sadiqoon parliamentary bloc, the
political wing of US-sanctioned Asaib Ahl Al-Haq, one of the Iran-aligned armed
factions, submitted a formal request to summon the prime minister and senior
security officials to a parliamentary session next week over the assault.