Possible organizers of assassination attempt on Iraqi prime minister named

Orientalist Truevtsev: the attack on the Iraqi prime minister was organized by those dissatisfied with the election results are representatives of radical pro-Iranian groups. This assumption in a conversation with “Lenta.ru” was expressed by a leading researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Konstantin Truevtsev.

According to him, these groups may be associated with the pro-Iranian coalition Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (People's Mobilization Forces), which is unhappy with the defeat in the October elections and is now protesting and demanding to reconsider the voting results. The orientalist noted that such an attack is just a separate element of pressure on the political elite and, in particular, on the Iraqi government. “The version that al-Kazimi organized it himself is too false,” Truevtsev noted.

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The orientalist also called the involvement of external forces in the attack on the Iraqi prime minister unlikely. For Iran, it would simply be unprofitable in light of the defeat of the pro-Iranian forces in the elections in the neighboring country. “Iraq has enough daredevils to organize such a thing,” he stressed.

Earlier, al-Kazimi said that he knew who tried to kill him with a drone with explosives directed at the residence. The prime minister noted that those who committed this crime will be prosecuted and exposed. In the country's Interior Ministry, the attempt to assassinate the politician was called a terrorist attack. The representative of the department stressed that the attack was carried out using three unmanned aerial vehicles, two of which were shot down. At the same time, the third drone hit al-Kazimi's house – as a result, several of the prime minister's security officers were injured.

On the night of November 7, Al Arabiya TV channel reported that the Iraqi prime minister was hospitalized after a drone attack on his residence in Baghdad. The politician was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, but later he said that “everything is in order.” The US called the incident an “obvious terrorist act” and offered Iraqi assistance in investigating the assassination attempt.

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