Saleh Muhammad Al-Iraqi and the “Minister of the Leader” .. Al-Sadr’s “Media Cell”

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[size=52]Saleh Muhammad Al-Iraqi and the “Minister of the Leader” .. Al-Sadr’s “Media Cell”[/size]

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[size=45]The leader of the “Sadr movement” Muqtada al-Sadr does not own any satellite station or official newspaper issued by his religious current and his political and partisan movement, unlike the rest of the other political forces in Iraq, and he does not finance any media agencies or fake pages, such as those called “electronic armies.”[/size]
[size=45]But realistically, al-Sadr is the main driver of all satellite stations and local media because of his positions, which he announces through three accounts on social media, and his supporters consider what he issues as a notification or official directives issued by Muqtada al-Sadr himself.[/size]
[size=45]The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr (49 years), publishes his positions and statements, through his personal account on "Twitter", which bears his name, and he owns two parallel pages that actually issue directives, important details and general positions of the movement, and played a prominent role in elections, protests, social events and various religious occasions. They are the pages of “The Leader’s Minister” and “Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi,” which represent the main media platforms of the Sadrists in Iraq, on the “Facebook” and “Twitter” platforms.[/size]
[size=45]The two accounts sparked discussions of politicians in meetings and interviews, and despite much talk about these pages, the names of those who run them remain unknown, amid assurances that Al-Sadr directly supervises all posts, tweets, and even responses to comments on followers.[/size]
[size=45]The prominent leader of the “Sadr movement,” Hakim al-Zamili, admitted in an interview that “the pages of the “Minister of the Leader” and “Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi” are managed by personalities close to Muqtada al-Sadr, yet he did not acknowledge any names that run these two pages.[/size]
[size=45]Several sources close to the leader of the “Sadr movement,” one of them in Najaf, confirmed that the “Minister of the Leader” account is managed by the resigned member of the Iraqi parliament from the Sadrist bloc, Hassan al-Adhari, along with another figure, while the “Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi” page is managed by it. Sheikh Tawfiq al-Ghanimi, one of the students of the late reference Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr (the father of Muqtada al-Sadr), along with Ali al-Sadr, who is the nephew of Muqtada al-Sadr.[/size]
[size=45]One of the sources confirmed that Al-Sadr personally supervises all the posts, publications and comments issued by these pages, revealing that the “Sadr Information Cell” came by order of Muqtada Al-Sadr, “in order to confront the framework media, as well as to create a new media situation that does not require large sums of money.” .[/size]
[size=45]Another source confirmed that the “Saleh Muhammad al-Iraqi” page was run by Muqtada al-Sadr alone, but when it became famous among the ranks of the Sadrist movement, he left it to Ali al-Sadr, who nicknamed him “Al-Shabouthi.”[/size]
[size=45]About one million and one hundred thousand people follow the “Minister Al-Qaid” page on “Facebook”, while the “Saleh Muhammad Al-Iraqi” page on “Twitter” has about 850 thousand subscribers, and Muqtada Al-Sadr’s account on “Twitter” is followed by about two million people, and these accounts are The main guide of the current in all its movements and political orientations.[/size]
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