29 Mar 2024
Monday 17 October 2016 - 23:00
Story Code : 235456

Iraq requests participation of Irans Soleimani in Mosul campaign: report

A high-level source in the Tehran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces spoke with Al-Akhbar on the Mosul offensive against ISIS.


BEIRUT The Iraqi government has allegedly asked General Qassem Soleimani to take part in the newly-announced offensive on Mosul, according to a Lebanese daily supportive of Hezbollah.

A high-level source in the Tehran-backed Popular Mobilization Forcesspoke with Al-Akhbar on the Mosul campaign against ISIS, which kicked off in the early hours of October 17 following months of preparation.

According to the source, Baghdad requested that Soleimani participate in the campaign, however the unidentified Popular Mobilization figure did not go into any details on the potentially dramatic move.

The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force has served as Tehrans point-man on battlefields in Iraq and Syria, with his public presence near the frontlines serving as a propaganda boon for Iranian-supported fighting forces.

The source in the umbrella organization also told Al-Akhbar that Popular Mobilization combatants mobilized outside Mosul were not coordinating with the US-led international coalition, which has supported Iraqi government forces as well the Kurdish Peshmerga.

The source, who remained anonymous, claimed that the coalitions participation in the battle does not mean anything to the Popular Mobilization, a government-sponsored collection of mainly Shia paramilitary groups which the US has avoided providing official support.


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