A senior Iraqi cleric has condemned the US-backed Israeli plan for annexation of the occupied West Bank calling that a plot that predates even the Balfour Declaration.
Ayatollah Sayyed Yassin Mousavi, the Friday prayer leader of Baghdad, strongly condemned the Israeli regime’s move to annex the West Bank, describing it as a continuation of a long-standing Zionist project to seize Arab lands.
 
He emphasized that the plan predates even the Balfour Declaration and warned of a broader agenda to expand the so-called ‘Greater Israel.’
 
The senior scholar stressed that this plan has been aggressively supported by the United States, particularly under the Trump administration. “But these efforts have been thwarted by the steadfastness of the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq,” he noted.
 
“The resistance axis remains strong,” Ayatollah Mousavi added, affirming that regional resistance forces, particularly Shia groups, represent the final line of defense against the American-Zionist agenda.
 
Ayatollah Mousavi concluded, “The blood of our martyrs — in Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran — still guides us. Leaders like Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and martyr Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis are eternal symbols of resistance.”