{"id":23821,"date":"2020-12-03T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/?p=23821"},"modified":"2020-12-03T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:43:50","slug":"tensions-avec-liran-washington-retire-dirak-une-partie-de-ses-diplomates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/?p=23821","title":{"rendered":"Tensions avec l&rsquo;Iran : Washington retire d&rsquo;Irak une partie de ses diplomates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">L\u2019ambassade des \u00c9tats-Unis \u00e0 Bagdad a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de retirer une partie de son personnel pour des raisons de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, alors que les int\u00e9r\u00eats am\u00e9ricains dans le pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 vis\u00e9s par une s\u00e9rie d\u2019attaques \u00e0 la roquette ces derniers mois, ont annonc\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019AFP des responsables irakiens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est un retrait mineur bas\u00e9 sur des craintes d\u2019ordre s\u00e9curitaire de la part des Am\u00e9ricains, ils devraient revenir, c\u2019est simplement une mesure de pr\u00e9caution\u00a0\u00bb, a expliqu\u00e9 une source irakienne, s\u2019exprimant anonymement. \u00ab\u00a0Ils nous en avaient inform\u00e9s et les principaux diplomates, dont l\u2019ambassadeur, restent sur place. Il n\u2019y a pas de rupture diplomatique\u00a0\u00bb, a ajout\u00e9 cette source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Selon un second responsable irakien, ce retrait partiel vise \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0minimiser les risques\u00a0\u00bb, sans pr\u00e9cision sur le nombre de diplomates am\u00e9ricains, sur les quelques centaines pr\u00e9sents dans le pays, en partance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Le d\u00e9partement d\u2019\u00c9tat am\u00e9ricain s\u2019est pour sa part refus\u00e9 \u00e0 tout commentaire, rappelant que la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 des repr\u00e9sentants am\u00e9ricains, ainsi que de ses citoyens et installations \u00ab\u00a0reste notre priorit\u00e9 majeure\u00a0\u00bb, tout en pr\u00e9cisant que l\u2019ambassadeur Matthew Tueller \u00e9tait toujours \u00e0 Bagdad.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alors que ses personnels et int\u00e9r\u00eats ont \u00e9t\u00e9 la cible d\u2019attaques \u00e0 la roquette et de bombes sur les routes, Washington a point\u00e9 la responsabilit\u00e9 de groupes pro-iraniens, bombardant \u00e0 deux reprises l\u2019un d\u2019entre eux, Kataeb Hezbollah, en signe de repr\u00e9sailles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Face \u00e0 la r\u00e9currence des attaques, les \u00c9tats-Unis ont pos\u00e9 un ultimatum \u00e0 Bagdad, mena\u00e7ant de fermer sa repr\u00e9sentation sur place, conduisant les groupes pro-iraniens \u00e0 s\u2019entendre sur une \u00ab\u00a0tr\u00eave\u00a0\u00bb mi-octobre et entra\u00eenant l\u2019arr\u00eat des attaques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Malgr\u00e9 de nouveaux tirs de roquette sur plusieurs quartiers de la capitale le 17 novembre, provoquant la mort d\u2019une fillette, les responsables irakiens et plusieurs responsables occidentaux estimaient que la tr\u00eave pouvait durer, mais que Washington pr\u00e9parait malgr\u00e9 tout diverses options, dont celle d\u2019un retrait partiel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tous s\u2019attendent \u00e0 plusieurs semaines difficiles avant la passation de pouvoir \u00e0 la Maison-Blanche, alors que Donald Trump a poursuivi une strat\u00e9gie de \u00ab\u00a0pression maximale\u00a0\u00bb \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de l\u2019Iran qui a \u00e9galement concern\u00e9 ses alli\u00e9s dans l\u2019Irak voisin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ils n\u2019\u00e9cartent pas la possibilit\u00e9 d\u2019une action militaire de derni\u00e8re minute de la part du pr\u00e9sident am\u00e9ricain sortant contre des int\u00e9r\u00eats iraniens en Irak, alors que M. Trump doit quitter le pouvoir le 20 janvier prochain au profit de Joe Biden, \u00e9lu 46e pr\u00e9sident des \u00c9tats-Unis il y a un mois.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Avec AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"L\u2019ambassade des \u00c9tats-Unis \u00e0 Bagdad a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de retirer une partie de son personnel pour des raisons de s\u00e9curit\u00e9, alors que les int\u00e9r\u00eats am\u00e9ricains dans le pays ont \u00e9t\u00e9 vis\u00e9s par une s\u00e9rie d\u2019attaques \u00e0 la roquette ces derniers mois, ont annonc\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019AFP des responsables irakiens. \u00ab\u00a0C\u2019est un retrait mineur bas\u00e9 sur des craintes [...]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":"","sponsored_post_label":"","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":""},"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[6414,6412],"class_list":["post-23821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-politique","tag-diplomates","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23824,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23821\/revisions\/23824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africanchallenges.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}