Iranian commander congratulates Iraq on U.S. troop withdrawal

TEHRAN, Dec. 26 (MNA) – Chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Hassan Firouzabadi congratulated the Iraqi nation and government on the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country. In separate messages to Iraqi military chief of staff Babaker Zebari and Deputy Minister of Defense Saadoun al-Dulaimi, Firouzabadi expressed hope that the United States would learn a lesson from its ‘embarrassing defeat’ in Iraq after nine years of occupation of the country and would not even think of aggression against any other country.