Sabah al-Saadi, a member of parliament in the bloc led by influential
anti-American religious scholar Moqtada Sadr, has proposed a bill demanding a US
pullout.
Trump's latest remarks had made passing such a law "a national duty."
Deputy speaker of parliament Hassan Karim al-Kaabi, also close to Sadr, said
they were a "new provocation," weeks after the US president sparked outrage in
Iraq by visiting US troops at Ain al-Asad without meeting a single Iraqi
official.
Kurdish MP Sarkawt Shams tweeted that the mission of US troops in Iraq was "to
help Iraqi security forces against terrorism, not 'watching' others."
"We are expecting the United States to respect Our mutual interests and avoid
pushing Iraq into a regional conflict," he said.
In an interview with CBS television, Trump reaffirmed his determination to pull
the United States out of "endless wars" in Syria and Afghanistan but said
American troops would stay on in Iraq, partly "to be looking a little bit at
Iran."
"We spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it,"
he said, referring to Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq that he visited in
December.
"If somebody is looking to do nuclear weapons or other things, we're going to
know it before they do," he said in the interview aired on Sunday.
Source:Tasnim