“We will regroup the forces of the resistance in a single entity to respond to Washington.

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“The American aggression against the Hashed Al Shaabi has marked the beginning of the war against the resistance.

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“We will wage a war against the American presence in all parts of the region that we can reach. Thousands of Marines are present in possible targets.”Agence France-Presse, “Iraqi armed factions call meeting to begin anti-US fight,” Jordan Times (Amman) January 7, 2020, http://www.jordantimes.com/news/region/iraqi-armed-factions-call-meeting-begin-anti-us-fight.

“The enemy should not be mistaken in its assessments, and it will receive a strong slap in the face if it does make such a mistake. Everyone could see today what power we have on the ground. The message of these exercises…for world arrogance is not to do anything stupid.”“Iran: US should be ready for 'strong slap in face,’” Kurdistan 24, February 23, 2017, https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/4328560f-41cb-4891-aa35-d172f54c5f5b.

“As an ideologue, I like to be anti-American. I state this clearly, and there is no room for confusion… The Americans are currently present in over 11 camps, and we are present near all these camps. We know when they come and we know when they go. The Americans are now using aircrafts. We can shut down all those places where the Americans are present.”“Iraqi Shiite Militia Leader Abu Alaa Al-Walai: U.S. Forces in Iraq Will Be Taken Hostage in Event of U.S.-Iran War; We Are Deployed Near All U.S. Bases,” Middle East Media Research Institute, September 8, 2019, https://www.memri.org/tv/iraqi-shiite-militia-leader-walai-sayyid-shuhada-battalions-reiterates-americans-prisoners-war-iran.

“Now, it is proven to all the world that terror and horror are rooted in the DNA of the US system.”“American Terrorism Benefits Afghanistan as a Lab!” HT Afghanistan Media Office, July 7, 2019, http://hizb-afghanistan.com/topic/content.aspx?id=6837.

“America is the sick man of the twenty-first century on the brink! https://bit.ly/2UW2bVJ” (Tweet)HTAFMediaOffice, Twitter post, May 2, 2019, 12:45 p.m., https://twitter.com/HTAFMediaOffice/status/1123991818360766466.

“Trump’s main problem is that he cannot hide America's hateful intentions and motives, which former US officials have kept secret in their hearts and strategies. His position is not only about the Islamic Ummah but also shows America's hatred and bad motives against all the nations of the world.”“Trump always shows the true face of America,” HT Afghanistan Media Office, January 13, 2019, http://hizb-afghanistan.com/topic/content.aspx?id=4167.

“American colonization in Afghanistan was seventeen years old” (Tweet)HTAFMediaOffice, Twitter post, October 7, 2018, 5:31 a.m., https://twitter.com/HTAFMediaOffice/status/1048868399001100288.

“[The] Americans know that if any Iraqi government takes a step against Iran, it will be toppled in some few ‎weeks.”“Shia Militia Group Says It Will Topple Any Iraqi Gov. Hostile to Iran in ‘Weeks,’” Kurdistan 24, August 6, 2019, https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/bf35833b-2b55-4df3-b6ec-1a4cf5da2d78.

“Confrontation with the United States will only stop once it is eliminated from the region, along with the Zionist entity.”Abu Adnan Zeed, “Iraqi Factions a Wild Card in US-Iran Blame Game,” Al-Monitor, May 18, 2019, https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/05/iraq-us-troops-iran-nujaba.html.

“…[W]e are fighting a policy – the policy of the U.S. and British regimes, or the entire Zionist occupation. The Zionists constitute an army for which a state was created and for which they want to create a people. All the forces and all the Israelis on the land of Palestine are occupiers – even the newborn babies. There are no exceptions. They constitute an army brought over by the British occupiers, who created this cancerous tumor and planted it in the region.”“Al-Nujaba Militia Leader Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi: IRGC and Lebanese Hizbullah Officers Have Guided Us in Fighting the American Forces since 2004: 'We Started Using Explosively Formed Penetrators... They Would Explode inside the Tank, Destroying It and Killing' the Americans Inside,” Middle East Media Research Institute, January 24, 2019,  https://www.memri.org/reports/al-nujaba-militia-leader-sheikh-akram-al-kaabi-irgc-and-lebanese-hizbullah-officers-have.