As U.S. and Iraqi forces step up raids throughout Baghdad, Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani described the crackdown as the last chance for the U.S. occupation.

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani: “This plan is the last-ditch effort by the U.S. administration and the new Iraqi political system. If the plan failed, the Iraqi project of the U.S. administration would fail, and the whole Iraqi political project would fall to pieces.”