Pompeo decries pro-Iran factions warning to Iraqi troops

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Saturday hit back at a hardline pro-Iran faction in Iraq, after it urged Iraqis to move away from US forces. The warning from Kataeb Hezbollah came as tens of thousands mourned Iran's Major General Qasem Soleimani, whose death in a US strike early Friday brought vows of "severe revenge" from Tehran. Kataeb Hezbollah's "thugs are telling Iraqi security forces to abandon their duty to protect (the US embassy in Baghdad) and other locations where Americans work side by side with good Iraqi people," Pompeo tweeted.

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