Saudi Arabia Responsible for Attacks on Iraq’s Electricity Transmission Lines

By Staff, Agencies

Iraq’s Kataib Hezbollah Resistance group has held Saudi Arabia’s spy service responsible for the terrorist attacks targeting high voltage electricity transmission lines across the country.

“With definitive evidence, we have concluded that the Saudi intelligence agency is behind the acts of sabotage against Iraqi transmission towers,” the group- which is part of Hash Al-Sha’abi- said in a statement.

It further warned that the Riyadh regime is seeking to throw Iraq into chaos again and revive the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group through such destructive moves.

The Iraqi resistance group said Saudi Arabia is offering assistance to ease Iraq’s power crisis while targeting its power towers as part of failed attempts to paint itself as a “savior” and erase its criminal record.

In parallel, it underscored that “‘Israeli’, US and Saudi networks have launched a propaganda campaign to misinform and mislead the public opinion about the root cause of the attacks on power towers and clean up Riyadh’s image.”

Iraq’s electricity lines have been targeted repeatedly in the past few months, mostly in the territories where Daesh remnants still pose a threat, whereas the terrorist group had already been crushed across the Arab country through a joint effort by Iraq’s army, resistance groups and other regional actors.

Several Iraqi power towers along the electricity transfer line from the eastern Diyala province to eastern Baghdad were also damaged in subsequent explosions.

Earlier last month, the Iraqi ministry said a major power line in the northern province of Kirkuk was out of service after an act of “sabotage” targeted two nearby electricity pylons.