News:
Moqtada Sadr announced today that he will withdraw from the Iraqi political arena, but this announcement did not cause some of his supporters to leave the streets of Iraq.
Analysis:
Faraan: Earlier, before the 72-hour ultimatum, Sadr had promised a surprise decision. Some believe that today’s announcement of Sadr’s resignation from politics is a surprising decision. Regardless of whether this announcement is the intended surprising decision or not, it seems that with the announcement of Sadr’s resignation from the world of politics and also his order to close all the offices under his command, one should no longer expect a surprising action from Sadr.
The main thing to think about in Sadr’s new approach is why she did not order her supporters to return to their homes by announcing his withdrawal from politics and closing his offices and canceling the group managing the strikes?
Can’t this reservation in asking fans to return to their homes free the hands of Sadr’s fanatical supporters in the next steps? In a way, does this lack of request allow the extremist fans to “fire at will”?
Won’t the insistence of some Sadrists on illegal actions during the last few hours, which started with the attack on the government (Palace of the Republic) and other legal institutions of Iraq and spread to other provinces of Iraq, strengthen the possibility of conflict and the continuation of unrest in Iraq?
Sadr had said that after that he will neither issue a declaration nor a tweet, was it based on what happened and is happening in Iraq during these hours and was this situation predicted?
The reality of recent weeks in Iraq showed that the course of developments favors the rule of law in Iraq. Perhaps it is enough to pay attention to this point by those who still insist on solving problems on the street and not through legal channels. It seems that the end point of today’s unrest in Iraq is still the personality of Moqtada Sadr. Determining the task of the protesting community in the streets of Iraq and saving Iraq from the aftershocks of the one-month crisis is still up to him.
