Hawzah News Agency - According to the Communication and Media Affairs Centre of al-‎Nujaba in Iran, Hujjat al-‎Islam Ali al-Asadi, the chairman of al-Nujaba’s Islamic Resistance Political Council, made a ‎statement in response to the Pentagon’s official announcement of a reduction in the number ‎of American troops in Iraq, saying, “Reducing the number of American occupiers in Iraq has ‎no significant place in our actual calculations. What is important for us in these calculations is ‎to see the departure of the United States from our land, up to the last occupying soldier.”‎

Referring to the efforts of some individuals to justify the presence of the occupiers, he ‎continued, “No matter how much others try to distort the truth, the occupiers’ hands will ‎remain soaked with the blood of our martyrs.”‎

Hujjat al-Islam al-Asadi ‎stressed that the Iraqi people have never been incapable of attaining ‎their rights such that the occupiers can be beholden to them by reducing the number of their ‎troops and added, “We advise the occupiers to speed up the withdrawal of their troops so ‎that the path of change does not reach a dead end.”‎