At an emergency session of the legislative assembly, the resolution was proposed to parliament by the interim Prime MinisterAdil Abdul Mahdi, who underlined that Iraqi military officials were informed of the operation to shoot down the Iranian general and the commander of the Iraqi Shiite militia just minutes before the operation took place.
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Mahdi added that, despite the very short notice, his government had expressly refused permission to carry out the air strike on Iraqi territory, noting in passing that Soleimani was on his way to a meeting with the Iraqi prime minister himself when he was shot down. .
He concluded that after the assassination of both leaders, it became clear that the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq would be in the interests of both the United States and Iraq.
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