The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, today, Friday, sent a message to Iran and the United States, asking them to “keep their conflicts away from Iraq.”
He wrote in a tweet on his account on the “Twitter” website: “Beloved Iraq fell victim to the American-Iranian conflict, and has been damaged in a way that cannot be tolerated as if it was an arena for their military, security, political and viral conflicts due to the weakness of the government and the dispersion of the people.
He added, “I call on our dear neighbor (Iran) to keep Iraq away from its conflicts, and we will not leave them in their intensity if Iraq and its government preserve prestige and independence.”
Al-Sadr warned that what he called “the occupation, its persistence in the conflict,” and indicated that “Iraq and the Iraqis are not a party to the conflict, and we are in the process of building our beloved Iraq.”
He continued: “In the event of failure to respond, we will have a political and popular position to protect my people, my patriot, my sanctities and myself from this unacceptable interference in one way or another.”
He concluded his statement: “Iraq is the true source of Shiism and the first source of resistance against the occupation.”
Source: RT
