March 11, 2021 at 12:31 pm | Published in: Iraq, Middle East, News
Poster of Sadrist Movement Leader Muqtada Al-Sadr is seen as Iraqi demonstrators gather at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq on 3 January 2020 [Murtadha Sudani/Anadolu Agency] March 11, 2021 at 12:31 pm
Leader of the Iraqi Sadrist Movement and prominent Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr yesterday announced his support for Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi s call for national dialogue,
Anadolu reported.
This came in a statement read by the director of Al-Sadr s media office, Haider Al-Jabri, in which he also said: Everyone is required to activate reform dialogue between all parties, including the protesting youth generation , adding that dialogue should take place under the supervision of the United Nations and that everyone who has a Baathist or terrorist affiliation should be excluded.
Iraq s Muqtada Al-Sadr warns of looming normalisation with Israel February 11, 2021 at 1:11 pm | Published in: Iraq, Israel, Middle East, News
Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr delivers a statement in which he backed early elections overseen by the United Nations, in an extremely rare press conference outside his home in Iraq s holy city Najaf, on 10 February 2021. [ALI NAJAFI/AFP via Getty Images] February 11, 2021 at 1:11 pm
Leader of the Iraqi Sadrist Movement and prominent Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr said yesterday that his movement will not allow normalisation between Iraq and Israel, even if the price is blood . Normalisation is at the door, and the parliament must prevent this. We will not allow normalisation at all, even if it costs us blood, Al-Sadr told reporters in the southern city of Najaf.