Alwaght-According to Fars News agency, in a statement released on Saturday, Sadr underscored that the US is attempting to break up and destroy Iraq under the pretext of combating the ISIS terrorist group .Muqtada Sadr further called on the Iraqi government to redouble its efforts to liberate Nineveh province from the control of the ISIS terrorist group .
Elsewhere in his statement, the Iraqi cleric said that the territories freed by the volunteer forces would be handed over to the army in 15 days .Muqtada Sadr had earlier expressed strong opposition to the America military intervention in the country, calling on America authorities to withdraw their troops from Iraq .
In addition, Iraq's Hezbollah Battalions in a statement issued last month strongly rejected any cooperation with the US-led coalition against ISIS terrorist group . "The coalition being formed against the ISIS terrorist group which is led by the US is a prelude to a new occupation plot", part of the statement said.
The Hezbollah Battalions urged the Iraqi nation to be vigilant against the scenarios of the West, specially America, and their mercenaries in the region, implying that the ISIS is working for America " .We believe that demanding help from America means a confiscation (by America) of the Iraqi nation and people's resistance against terrorism and the pain and agony that they have had to suffer for protecting Iraq's unity," the statement said .
"We believe that America is responsible for Iraq's problems and challenges and we do not have any hope in the United States," it added .The Battalions also urged Iraq's religious authorities and elites as well as other layers of the society from different walks of life to take straightforward stances about the current developments and America meddling in the country before it's too late .
Also in September, the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah, voiced its opposition to Lebanon's participation in the US-led coalition against the ISIS terrorist group." " Hezbollah is opposed to Lebanon's presence in the anti-ISIS coalition led by the America and Saudi Arabia and created with the partnership of those countries supporting the Takfiri terrorist groups," the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar quoted a source close to Hezbollah as saying on the condition of anonymity last month .
