Reuters |Aziz El Yaakoubi, Ahmed Rasheed: Iranian-backed Shia factions have exhorted Iraqis to turn out for a million-strong march on Friday aimed at whipping up anti-American sentiment as the United States struggle with Iran plays out on the streets of Baghdad. Those behind the rally have two goals in mind - to pressure Washington to pull its troops ...

Press TV - Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has demanded that Iraqis stage a million-man march against the continued US military presence in the country, days after Iraqs parliament voted to expel the American troops following an assassination operation by Washingtonon Iraqi soil. The march is needed to condemn the American presence ...

Press TV - Iraqs influential cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, has released a statement saying that if US troops do not leave the country, Iraq will turn into a new Vietnam for Washington. Sadr, who leads the largest bloc in parliament, said in a letter to the assembly that a parliamentary resolution calling on the government to end foreign troop presence ...

Press TV - Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has condemned US assassination of IRGC Quds Force commander General Qassem Soleimani, warning of devastating consequences for Iraq as senior Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr putall his forces on alert. The United States confirmed early on Friday that its forces had assassinated Gen. Soleimani and Abu Mahdi ...

Press TV - Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has condemned an arson attack on the Iranian consulate in Najaf, dismissing allegations that his followers were behind the Wednesday incident. We condemn attacks on diplomatic missions, because such acts are not characteristic of the Sadr Movement, Muqtada al-Sadr was quoted as saying by Iraqs ...

Tasnim Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi hailed the growing relations with Iraq and said Tehran plans to boost its cooperation with Baghdad after a new government is formed in the Arab country. Our relationship with Iraq as a neighboring country is good and there has been a lot of reciprocal visits, Qassemi told reporters in Tehran ...

IFP- Iraqs Sadr Movement which has secured the largest number of seats in Iraqs parliamentary elections says unlike what is widely said by certain states, Iran does not and will not interfere in Iraqs internal affairs. Sadr Movement is headed by Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who has turned from an alleged rebel and politically adventurous young ...

IRNA Iraq's Sadr Movement does not welcome what the US dictates to the country on cooperation with Iran, an Iraqi politician announced on Tuesday evening. Due to the fight and sacrifice the Sadr Movement and other Iraqi partners have already made, they will not bow down to the US ambitions, Zia al-Asadi who is head of political bureau of the Movement ...

IFP - Irans Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi says most Iranian officials, especially IRGC Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani, like Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr very much as far as he knows. Speaking in an interview with IRNA in Baghdad, Masjedi dismissed speculation about a discord between Tehran and the anti-American ...

Press TV - SeniorIraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has slammed a recent US airstrike that killed eleven people in Anbar Province, saying the air raid was part of Washingtons repeated violations of the Arab countrys sovereignty. "Once again the American occupation forces have shown their tyranny and arrogance by flagrantly violating the independence ...

IRNA - Leader of a political party, the Sadrist Movement and the leader of Saraya al-Salam Muqtada al-Sadr pointed to historic and stable ties between two countries. Muqtada al-Sadr made the remarks in an interview recently. Iraq never stands against Iran and its interests, he said. He also denied the fact that his recent regional trips aimed ...

August 7, The Iran Project - The visit of leader of al-Sadr movement Muqtada al-Sadr to Saudi Arabia surprised many analysts and commentators. Those who follow events in the region are aware of the collaboration between Saudi Arabia and terrorists in Iraq as well as the knowledge of Muqtada al-Sadr of this cooperation. This visit, therefore, merely ...

Al-Monitor | Ali Hashem: On May 2, Saudi ArabiasMohammed bin Salman(now the crown prince)said in a television interview that dialogue with Iranwas impossibledue to Iranians'belief in the Shia Messiah. Their stance is that the awaited Mahdi will come, and they need to create a fertile environment for the arrival of the awaited Mahdi, and they need to ...

Press TV - ProminentIraqi Shia clericMuqtadaal-Sadr has met with Saudi Arabias crown prince and a few other Saudi officials during a rare trip to the kingdom. According to the Saudi Press Agency on Sunday, Sadr met Mohammed bin Salman at the Red Sea port city of Jeddahwhere they discussed common topics. His Eminence Sayyed Muqtadaal-Sadr,...

Rudaw - Influential Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on President Masoud Barzani to postpone and eventually cancel the planned Kurdistan referendum on independence scheduled for September 25. Iraq is one and is for all, Sadr said in a written statement on Tuesday in response to a letter sent to his office by a Faili Kurd who complained ...

Press TV- Several rockets have been fired at Baghdad's Green Zone following violent clashes between police and supporters of cleric Muqtada al-Sadr which claimed the lives of at least seven people. "Several Katyusha rockets fired from the Baladiyat and Palestine Street areas landed in the Green Zone," said Iraqs Joint Operations Command in a ...

Press TV- Hundreds of supporters of prominent Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadrhave flocked into the streets the capitalBaghdad, calling onthe government to amend the countrys electoral law. The Wednesday demonstration was held outside Baghdads heavily-fortified Green Zone, housing government buildings and embassies. The protesters, most of them ...

Press TV- ProminentIraqi cleric, Muqtadaal-Sadr, has censured US President Donald Trumpover his executive order to ban entry into the US ofcitizens fromseven Muslim-majority countries, calling for the expulsion of American nationals from the Arab country in retaliation. It would be arrogance for you to enter freely Iraq and other countries while ...

Rudaw- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi met with prominent Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad on Monday to discuss the war against ISIS, the countrys security and political situation and most importantly, to mend ties after almost a year of tensions between Sadrists and the government and public protests. At a joint press conference Aabdi ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Ammar al-Hakim, the newly elected leader of the National Alliance, the largest political bloc in Iraqs parliament, said he pursues integrity and greater efficiency with the inclusion of all Iraqi parties, including Muqtada al-Sadrs al-Ahrar bloc. In an interview with the Tasnim News Agency, Ammar al-Hakim, the head of the Islamic ...