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    Reuters reveals details of Qaani's secret meeting with al-Sadr.. 30 hot minutes

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    Reuters reveals details of Qaani's secret meeting with al-Sadr.. 30 hot minutes Empty Reuters reveals details of Qaani's secret meeting with al-Sadr.. 30 hot minutes

    Post by Rocky Wed 24 Aug 2022, 7:39 am

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    [size=18]Baghdad - people  [/size]
    [size=18]A report published by "Reuters" highlighted the details of the visit of the Iranian Quds Force commander, Ismail Qaani, to the home of the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, in order to discuss the future of Iraqi politics and Iran's dominant role in it.  [/size]
      
      
     
    According to the report published by "Reuters", Wednesday, and followed by "Nass" (August 24, 2022), the meeting took place in al-Sadr's house, and the second party in it was the commander of the Quds Force, the wing of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards responsible for military and intelligence operations outside the borders used by the regime. In Tehran to extend his hegemony abroad, he is charged by Tehran with maintaining its influence in Iraq.  
      
      
    [size=18]Below is a portion of the text of the report:  [/size]
    According to four Iraqi and Iranian officials familiar with the details of the half-hour interview in the city of Najaf, al-Sadr received the Iranian leader with a "clear coldness."  
      
    Muqtada al-Sadr used to wear a black and white keffiyeh of southern Iraq on his shoulders and put on a brown cloak, in a deliberate local fashion that contrasted with the completely black clothes and turban that he usually wears on public occasions.  
      
    Al-Sadr's clothing, the officials said, was conveying a nationalist political message that summed it up: Iraq, as a sovereign Arab state, would make its own way, without interference from its Iranian neighbor, despite the sectarian ties between the two countries.  
      
    Al-Sadr challenged the Iranian leader, according to one of the officials, and said: "What is the relationship of Iraqi politics with you? ... We do not want you to interfere."  
      
    The Iranian government did not respond to requests sent to its foreign ministry and delegation to the United Nations for comment. Sadr's office also did not respond to questions from Reuters.  
      
    Moqtada al-Sadr, the officials said, was overwhelmed with confidence after a string of political gains made by his fledgling Iraqi alliance (Save a Homeland) against Iran and his Iraqi supporters, who see Tehran as their best ally.  
      
    [size=18]General Qaani has been waiting for the meeting for months  [/size]
    The Iranian leader was apprehensive, people familiar with the visit said. He kept seeking to meet for months, and he kept visiting Iraq, and on one occasion he prayed openly at the grave of al-Sadr's father.  
      
    Iranian officials quoted Qaani as saying that if Muqtada al-Sadr included Tehran's allies in any coalition, Iran would consider al-Sadr the main political figure in Iraq.  
      
    Al-Sadr has remained steadfast, stressing in a tweet after the meeting his commitment to a government free of foreign interference. In the written message, which was scanned on Twitter, he said: "Neither Eastern nor Western... a national majority government."  
      
    [size=18]Muqtada al-Sadr's disappointment  [/size]
    Muqtada al-Sadr's efforts to counter and defeat Iran's maneuvers only prompted it and its proxies to launch a political and military counterattack, including missile strikes on potential allies that al-Sadr was courting: the Kurds in northern Iraq and officials in the UAE.  
      
    Disappointment with Muqtada al-Sadr was so high due to the stalemate and Iranian pressure that in June he ordered his current 73 MPs, nearly a quarter of the parliament, to withdraw from the assembly. In July and August, he led thousands of his supporters in a long sit-in at the council.  
      
      
    [size=18]Fears of bloodshed in Iraq  [/size]
    Muqtada al-Sadr's diet worries many who fear that the current tension will fuel more unrest and possibly more violence inside Iraq and across the Middle East.  
      
    In statements to "Reuters", the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said: "If we want stability in the Middle East, this will not be achieved as long as there is general turmoil and competitions for power in Iraq, which will then become an arena for regional competitions. ".  
      
    “Al-Sadr can lead us to a Shiite war against the Shiites,” a commander in an Iran-allied militia in southern Iraq said of the February meeting.  
      
    To better understand the instability sweeping Iraq, Reuters spoke to more than 40 Iraqi and Iranian officials, politicians, foreign diplomats and local residents. Some officials, including those who described the meeting between Muqtada al-Sadr and Qaani, spoke on condition of anonymity.  
      
    The news agency also reviewed dozens of government documents detailing judicial decisions, government spending, and corruption investigations, and moved across the impoverished south, where most Shiites live, and where residents say the crisis is exacerbating deep-rooted problems with graft and institutional neglect.  
      
    “There is a political battle going on in Baghdad, and we are stuck in the middle of it,” said Walid Al-Dahamat, a teacher in the poor southern town of Amarah and brother of a local activist who was killed by unidentified gunmen in 2019.  
      
    [size=18]'Expect a lot of hardship'  [/size]
    Before Sadr and Qaani met, some of Iran's allies decided to express their displeasure with any move away from Tehran.  
      
    On February 2, an unknown faction based in southern Iraq launched drone strikes on the UAE capital Abu Dhabi.  
      
    The faction that bears the name (The Righteous Promise Brigades) said that the strikes came in response to the UAE's intervention in Iraq and Yemen, which is witnessing a raging civil war between regional agents led by Saudi Arabia and Iran.  
      
    The UAE said at the time that it had intercepted the strikes. But the attack scared the Emiratis, according to an Iraqi government official, a Western diplomat, and two Iraqi Sunni leaders who worked with UAE envoys in coalition talks. The UAE has sent officials to Tehran and Baghdad to calm the tension.  
      
    Jubouri, a Sunni leader who participated in efforts to form a government, noted that the Emiratis' commitment to Sadr had wavered. Al-Sadr met and met me the following week.  
      
    Three days after the tense interview, several of his advisors told Reuters that Muqtada al-Sadr had summoned his aides to his house. They added that he was clearly frustrated by the escalation of tension, and even returned to smoking, an old habit he had given up and never practiced in public places.  
      
    As one of the advisors, whose account of the meeting coincided with those of two other senior Sadrists familiar with the meeting, said: “His Eminence al-Sayyid told the attendees thus: Our opponents now are not only those who oppose a national majority government, but also our opponent now is the neighboring country, so they expected a lot. There will be difficulties and obstacles in the coming days, and we must all rely on God to face the enormous pressures imposed on us now and in the coming days.”  
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