US embassy in Baghdad evacuated as Biden’s handlers continue to pursue deal with Iran
Aug 29, 2022 11:36 am By Robert Spencer
As-Sadr is a leading Shi’ite cleric. The Iranian mullahs are behind any threat to the U.S. embassy. But nothing will stop OId Joe’s handlers from pursuing their policy of appeasement of Iran.
It was reported on Monday that the Presidential Palace in Baghdad, Iraq was breached, and that the US embassy was reportedly evacuated. Helicopters could be seen on the roof of the embassy.
Muqtada al Sadr announced on Monday that he was leaving politics, spurring Shiites to riot and breach the presidential palace. Al Sadr is their biggest political leader in Iraq and once led militias during the war. “I hereby announce my final withdrawal,” al-Sadr said.
A riot broke out inside the Presidential Palace as people stormed in and law enforcement attempted to hold them back.
US embassy employees could be seen leaving the embassy, and evacuating the Green Zone, via helicopter.
It was in the wake of this announcement that al Sadr’s supporters stormed the palace, which is inside Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone containing government buildings. Barriers were pulled down under the force of hundreds of people who used ropes to breach the barricades.
Once inside, they “rushed into its lavish salons and marbled halls, a key meeting place for Iraqi heads of state and foreign dignitaries,” Al Jazeera reports….
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