The Baghdad headquarters of the Iraqi Communist Party, which is part of the Sairoon alliance that won Iraq's parliamentary election, was targeted by a homemade bomb attack Friday.
The explosive devices were thrown into the building's gardens, but did not cause any casualties.
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A senior party member, Jassim Helfi, said that the attack was a message from those who opposed the Sairoon bloc's push to end corruption and foreign interference in the country.
“We reject all but a diplomatic U.S. presence in Iraq. We will not let our country become a staging area for attacking our neighbors,” Sairoon spokesperson Ziya al-Asad said this week.
A political alliance led by cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the Sairoon alliance scored an electoral victory earlier this month on a platform of expanding public services, rejecting foreign interference, and tackling corruption.
Al-Sadr himself cannot become prime minister because he did not run in the election, though his bloc’s victory puts him in a position to have a strong say in negotiations on forming a new government.
As part of the new alliance, a Communist party member, Suhad al-Khateeb, was elected to represent the city of Najaf on a platform of poverty reduction and women's rights.
The Iraqi Communist Party is the oldest active party in Iraq, founded in 1934.