Domestic, foreign factors could boost the fortunes of Sadr in Iraq’s elections
Washington may accept the assistance of Muqtada al-Sadr if he shows himself able to curtail the dominance of the Popular Mobilisation Forces.
Saturday 17/04/2021
A file picture shows supporters of iraq’s Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr (portrait) demonstrate in Tahrir Square in Baghdad. (AFP).
BAGHDAD – Informed Iraqi sources said that the Sadrist movement has begun to prepare for the upcoming Iraqi elections and that it will present itself to the US as a “moderate” movement and the best option in the Iraqi Shia community.
The sources told The Arab Weekly that the Shia political spectrum is now divided between the pro-Iranian Popular Mobilisation Forces, accused by the US of responsibility for attacks targeting its forces in Iraq; the Dawa Party, which is internally splintered and the remnants of smaller formations, such as the Al-Hikma groups.