Is Mr. Sadr's visit to Saudi Arabia the beginning of a new era? Rifaat Nafi 'Al Kanani

Is Mr. Sadr's visit to Saudi Arabia the beginning of a new era? Rifaat Nafi 'Al Kanani



Posted on Saturday, 05 August 2017 08:50

At the invitation of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Moqtada al-Sadr visited the Kingdom on July 30 and met the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a number of officials. This visit caused a great media uproar at the local and regional levels because of the timing of the visit. Some see it as a successful step towards bridging the rift between the two countries and extending the bridges of trust and confidence and start a new page in the history of Iraqi-Saudi relations and leave the page of the past and the similar ties of rupture and conflict to gain the Iraqi arena and the dream of Iraqis a dignified life free of abuse and injustice and dependence and accompanied by that period of emergence And the Iraqi people have paid hundreds of thousands of their finest youth and destroyed their cities and infrastructure as a result of the sectarian and material support of Saudi Arabia, the Gulf and the Arab world.
While the other opinion believes that the visit to Saudi Arabia is an achievement, and it is in real trouble due to many factors that led to the reduction of its influence and the defeat of its unbridled ambition in the leadership position of the Arabs and Muslims. A quick look at the failures of the Saudi policy indicates that the failure to achieve a rapid victory in Yemen brings to it the order of the Yemeni home according to its interests and objectives. The war imposed on Yemen has become a major burden on it and has serious repercussions on the Saudi interior. And the bet to topple President Bashar al-Assad was a failure, the process of the inauguration of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince and the impact on the internal situation of the Kingdom, could not master the role in the pressure on Qatar and scaled so that began concessions on the conditions imposed, the great victory and the overthrow of the state of vinegar FH alleged in Mosul has a large and active influence in the reconstruction of Iraq as a force to be reckoned with.
There are those who believe that Saudi Arabia's invitation to Mr. al-Sadr has many goals and American guidance and planning to achieve goals that serve its policy in the region through the division or split between the parties and the Shiite blocs and currents by means of some of them to make a front aligned with the goals declared at the Riyadh conference to besiege Iran and limit its influence On the Iraqi arena. And what is aimed at and working with it with all force to challenge and harm the popular mobilization forces and to limit its role and work on its internal, Arab and international demonization after it became an added force to Iraq in protecting its entity and borders. In addition to what is represented by Mr. Nuri al-Maliki of the insomnia of the permanent Saudis and their policy in Iraq and the assets of a large political current calculated on the Iraqi arena, has been his recent visit to Russia and the welcome of that visit from the reception and welcome by President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the President of the Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko to confirm his personality and his place and influence.
So, is Saudi Arabia starting with new steps away from its old policy, which brought the Arab region to its fragmentation, fighting and division by adopting a policy of moderation, moderation and openness to all through peaceful coexistence and extending security and stability in the region and rejecting the policy of extremism and atonement and crushing the other? We need a reassuring speech and a realistic policy that will draw lessons and results for the region, and not to define the conflict as an Arab-Iranian conflict with an abhorrent sectarian religious framework. It is impossible to imagine the future outcome of the future of peoples and the structures of the Middle East. We believe that the visit of Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr can play a positive role to create the foundations of understanding and rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran away from the sectarian and national dichotomy, and what it can establish for the stage of understanding, tolerance and consensus among the Iraqi components, in addition to extinguishing the hotbeds of conflict inside Saudi Arabia and calm it down.


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