On Wednesday, Iraq’s Prime Minister told the commander of US Central Command to his face that September 30 is “final and irreversible.” Hours later a US official confirmed the pullout is on track…The same week, a plane from Tehran landed in Baghdad carrying the [Iranian] Quds Force commander, unannounced, with one message for the armed factions: hand nothing over yet…Iraq’s armed groups call themselves the Islamic Resistance, and a resistance needs an occupier. On October 1 there is none. What stands in front of those weapons after that is Iraq itself…
