After the armed clashes that took place in the city of Basra in southern Iraq, the leader of the Sadrist movement launched Saleh Mohammed Al Iraqi Known as Minister al-Sadr, a fierce attack against the militias, calling on the armed forces to control them.
In this context, he presented, in a statement posted on his Twitter account, today, Thursday, a set of proposals for the Iraqi armed forces “to preserve the prestige of the state and end the presence of the factions in sensitive places within the state.”
Statement by Saleh Muhammad Al-Iraqi
He demanded the replacement of the PMF official, Faleh al-Fayyad, accusing him of being “unqualified, partisan and lacking a strong personality.”
Get it out of the green
He also suggested dissolving the factions claiming resistance and removing all factions and the popular mobilization from the Green Zone in the capital, Baghdad, and handing it over to the security forces.
From the Green Zone – Archyde.com
He pointed out that their stay in it poses a security risk to the commander of the armed forces, in addition to the rest of the institutions, especially the judiciary, which is being pressured.
In addition, the Minister of Al-Sadr suggested removing the Popular Mobilization Forces from the border crossings, for not using violence, trade, smuggling, and so on.
Clashes in Basra
Saleh al-Iraqi had warned the commander of the Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq militia, affiliated with Qais Khazali and affiliated with the crowd, after the armed clashes that took place in the city of Basra in southern Iraq, at night and continued until Thursday morning, in which one of the leaders of Saraya al-Salam (a faction affiliated with the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr) was killed.
It is noteworthy that the Iraqi capital lived a few days ago (on August 29, 2022) violent clashes that killed 30 people and injured about 600 during the confrontations that erupted last Monday, and lasted for nearly 24 hours in the heavily fortified Green Zone, which includes government headquarters and diplomatic missions, between Sadr’s supporters on the one hand, and members of the popular crowd on the other.
Those clashes took place after tens of thousands of Sadrists’ supporters took to the streets to express their anger after he announced his “final withdrawal” from political life.
Meanwhile, many southern governorates sympathized with these demonstrations, especially Basra.
This tension came months after the holding of parliamentary elections on the tenth of last October 2021, in which Al-Sadr won the largest share in Parliament, without being able to form a government or elect a new president of the country, due to the lack of a quorum, and the adherence to the “coordinating framework” Al-Sadr’s arch-rival, who It includes Nouri al-Maliki and the Fatah Alliance and other parties loyal to Iran, to form the government.