A senior official at Harakat al-Nujaba, an Iraqi PMU faction sanctioned by the U.S., asserted that "our battle in the region against the U.S. will continue until the end of their occupation and the destruction of the Occupying Regime [i.e. Israel]". "The Iraqi government", he added, "shouldn’t forget that Iran helped and stood by us during our toughest time, when many countries, pioneered by the U.S., left us alone in the fight against Daesh".