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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hezbollah/" rel="tag">Hezbollah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hizballah/" rel="tag">hizballah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hizbollah/" rel="tag">Hizbollah</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="text-align: left; unicode-bidi: bidi-override; direction: ltr"> <blockquote> <p>Lebanon’s Shia group Hezbollah on Thursday said that the latest bombings which rocked Iraq sought “to thwart the mission for building the [Iraqi] state.”</p> <p>“The hand of terrorism once again [targeted] the peaceful Iraqi streets leaving dead and wounded people,” Hezbollah said in a statement. </p> <p>The group added that the US “wants to sow death and devastation in Iraq in order to avenge the bitter defeat that befell it before the Iraqi people and the humiliating withdrawal of its troops from Iraq.” </p> <p>A wave of apparently coordinated bombing and shooting attacks in seven different provinces across Iraq killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 160 on Thursday. <br/>Hezbollah also condemned in another statement the “behavior of US troops–who have insulted bodies of Afghan victims.”  </p> <p>Hezbollah said that “the new pictures showing US soldiers posing with dead bodies of Afghan citizens which were published by an American newspaper, reveal how the US administration and its military tools disregard a human being’s dignity whether he is alive or dead.” </p> <p>Pictures published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday showed US soldiers posing with the remains of Taliban insurgents, one of them with a man’s hand draped over his shoulder.</p> </blockquote> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=387728" class="external" target="_blank">Lebanon news – NOW Lebanon -Hezbollah says latest bombings in Iraq “thwart mission to build state”</a></p> </p></div> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-13773"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/2011/10/08/%d8%ad%d8%b2%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%84%d9%87-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%82%d8%a7%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a9-%d9%85%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a9-%d9%84%d8%b3%d8%ad%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%8a-%d8%b9%d8%af%d9%88%d8%a7%d9%86/#respond" title="Comment on حزب الله: المقاومة مستعدة لسحق اي عدوان اسرائيلي">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 8th, 2011 by admin</div> <h3><a 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Extremists</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>اكد نائب الامين العام لحزب الله الشيخ نعيم قاسم ان اسرائيل تشعر بالقلق، بينما المقاومة الاسلامية التابعة لحزبه لا تشعر بالقلق، وذلك بعد ان تمت تهيئة المقاومة لمواجهة "اسرائيل" في حال حاولت الاعتداء على لبنان. <br/>وقال قاسم في كلمة له خلال احتفال تربوي السبت لن ترتاحوا من المقاومة ولن ترتاح "اسرائيل" من المقاومة، وخير لكم ان تعيدوا النظر في حساباتكم. <br/>ودعا الى البعد عن الموقف المتخاذل والتوقف عن الخشية من اميركا واوروبا والمجتمع الدولي، مطالبا بالتحلي بالجراة لمواجهة المجتمع الدولي بممارسات "اسرائيل" وباحتلالها واغتصابها للارض وقتلها للاطفال والنساء، وبتهديداتها المتواصلة بالحرب وبامتلاكها القنبلة النووية. <br/>واشار قاسم الى ان ويكيليكس كشفت ان اميركا لا تكن اي احترام للمتوددين لها ، مطالبا اياهم بالتوقف عن ربط كل شيء بقبول امريكا او رفضها، والاستماع فقط لمصلحة لبنان.</p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-12214"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a 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role" and warned that "partisan struggles for the political leadership of Iraq’s Shiites will take place in Al-Najaf, Karbala, and other central Euphrates and southern cities."</p> <p>The source which spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat on the condition of anonymity by telephone from Al-Najaf said that "the leader of Al-Sadr movement is holding in his family’s home in Al-Hananah quarter, intensive meetings with leaders of his movement in an effort to put their affairs in order and resolve some conflicts and struggles inside it, especially between those wearing turbans and those not wearing them (Mullahs and non-mullahs). The first are asserting that they are the ones who protected the Trend and its permanence while the others believe they were the ones credited with making the Trend a political movement." </p> <p>The source went on to say that discussions during the meeting also focused on the removal of some the traditional leaders whom Al-Sadr believes are undisciplined or not in tune with the times, especially as some symbols of the movement have yet to appear in Al-Najaf since Al-Sadr’s return.</p> <p>The political source went on to say: "Al-Sadr returned to Iraq arrogant with power after having left Al-Najaf in secret for fear of being arrested by American forces. But his movment today has 40 seats in the Iraqi House of Representatives and seven ministers in the government. This hastened his return to play an influential political role that is to a large extent similar to the role of Hasan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to what those close to Al-Sadr are asserting."</p> <p>The source pointed out that "the attention the Iraqi political leaders are paying Al-Sadr is giving him stronger impetus" and referred to "the visit by President Jalal Talabani, leader of the Democratic Union of Kurdistan, to Al-Sadr in his house in Al-Najaf and the telephone contact Dr. Iyad Allawi, the former Iraqi prime minister and Al-Iraqiya List leader, had with him the day before yesterday." </p> <p>The source noted that, "leaders of the traditional Shiite parties are not happy with Al-Sadr’s return to Al-Najaf, the capital of Shiite influence." It added that "hot political struggles between the Shiite parties for control of the Shiite influence are going to surface through events, especially between Al-Sadr Trend and Al-Dawa Party, which is led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on one hand and between the Trend and the Islamic Supreme Council [IISC] which is led by Ammar al-Hakim on the other hand." It warned that "the struggle between Al-Sadr Trend and the IISC is going to be more public due to the historic struggle for control of Al-Najaf between Al-Sadr and Al-Hakim’s families."</p> <p>The source believes that "Muqtada al-Sadr will not forget his traditional enemies easily or the battles the current Prime Minster Nuri Al-Maliki led against his Trend in which many of his supporters were killed or arrested. Hence, the struggle between Al-Sadr and Al-Maliki will not be confined only to the partisan one between Al-Sadr Trend and Al-Dawa Party but personal aspects and settlement of accounts might be involved which will weaken both sides, particularly as Al-Dawa Party considers itself as having greater Shiite influence in Iraq and does not accept anything less than that. This Shiite party even sees itself as the only political representative of Iraq’s Shiites following the reduced influence of IISC in the recent legislative elections and its failure to obtain important ministries in Al-Maliki’s second government." The source does not rule out the possibility of "Al-Sadr starting his battle with Al-Maliki by criticizing the government’s performance and through his ministers and parliamentary deputies so as to weaken the prime minister’s position without triumphing over him" and pointed out that the "coming months will see noticeable tensions between the Shiite parties’ leaders and the people of Al-Najaf are fearful of Al-Sadr Trend’s calm before the storm."</p> <p>However, Baha al-Aaraji, the leader in the Trend who is close to Muqtada, has said "Iraq is not Lebanon. What applies there cannot be applied here. In his speeches and statements, Muqtada al-Sadr stresses the need to stay away from weapons and demands that any issue should be resolved politically." He pointed out that the Trend leader "is expecting the government to provide the services to the Iraqi people and to get the American occupation forces out. He will back the government and give it the chance even though he had said it was weak. We will comment if his demands, which are for the Iraqis, are not fulfilled." He told Asharq Al-Awsat "there is a roadmap that is not yet clear and things will become clearer after "fortieth" celebration which marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Al-Hussein, when large meetings will be held."</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=23842" class="external" target="_blank">Al-Sadr’s Hezbollah designs for Iraq Asharq Alawsat Newspaper (English)</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-11631"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/17/how-iran-brokered-a-secret-deal-to-put-its-ally-in-power-in-iraq/#respond" title="Comment on How Iran brokered a secret deal to put its ally in power in Iraq">No Comments</a></span> Posted on October 17th, 2010 by Saba Ali</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/10/17/how-iran-brokered-a-secret-deal-to-put-its-ally-in-power-in-iraq/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to How Iran brokered a secret deal to put its ally in power in Iraq">How Iran brokered a secret deal to put its ally in power in Iraq</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in News" rel="category tag">News</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ayatollah-khameini/" rel="tag">Ayatollah Khameini</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/chulov-martin/" rel="tag">Chulov - Martin</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/dawa-party/" rel="tag">Dawa Party</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/guardian-the/" rel="tag">Guardian The</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hassan-nasrallah/" rel="tag">hassan nasrallah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hezbollah/" rel="tag">Hezbollah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hizballah/" rel="tag">hizballah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/interior-ministry/" rel="tag">Interior Ministry</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iran/" rel="tag">Iran</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/iyad-allawi/" rel="tag">Iyad Allawi</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/khameini/" rel="tag">Khameini</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mahmoud-ahmadinejad/" rel="tag">Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/mohammed-kawtharani/" rel="tag">Mohammed Kawtharani</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/muqtada-al-sadr/" rel="tag">Muqtada al-Sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/nasrallah/" rel="tag">Nasrallah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/president-assad/" rel="tag">President Assad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/quds-force/" rel="tag">Quds Force</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reconciliation/" rel="tag">reconciliation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadr-city/" rel="tag">Sadr City</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/security-agencies/" rel="tag">security agencies</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/supreme-leader-ali-khamenei/" rel="tag">Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d9%85%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1%e2%80%8e/" rel="tag">مدينة الصدر‎</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; float: right; padding-bottom: 5px; margin: 5px 0px 5px 15px; width: 300px; padding-top: 0px"> <div class="container"> <div class="shadow"> <div class="frame"> <p>This article by Martin Chulov <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://www.guardian.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="external">The Guardian</a>’s correspondent in Baghdad is worth re-reading at least once,</p> <p>Chulov has good sources both within the Sadrists and the Dawa party. </p> <p>I see no reason to doubt the scenario Chulov has  laid out here. In particular his report that Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah was involved agrees with our information both from within Irak and Lebanon. Moreover as is well known Muqtada al-Sadr admires Nasrallah (to whom he is related) and wants to build his movement into a movement similar to Hizballah.</p> <p>What ministries do they want? That is hard to tell it depends on whether they get seven or four. Certainly they’ll want a social ministry such as health, they’ll demand a "security" ministry – an educated guess is that they will ask for and get the interior ministry beyond that I do not want to guess. Cabinet secretary general seems logical to me.</p> <p>Saba Ali.</p> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> </p></div> <p>Tehran’s influence in Baghdad politics described by western official as ‘nothing less than a strategic defeat’ for US</p> <p>In the sprawling slums of Baghdad’s Shia heartland, signs of triumph are everywhere. Loyalists of Muqtada al-Sadr are posting giant images of the cleric in hospitals, schools and on neighbourhood squares. Cakes and nuts, usually reserved for festivals, are being served to guests of key officials.</p> <p>Sadr’s followers say theirs is a movement whose time has come. It has been like this for 16 days, since the exiled cleric confirmed his support for a second term for the incumbent prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. That move looks set to revolutionise political life in Iraq and, potentially, recast the brittle nation’s dealings with the west.</p> <p>Hours after Sadr’s endorsement, on 1 October, the bulk of Iraq’s Shia political blocs announced that Maliki was their candidate for prime minister, after seven months of political torpor.</p> <p>This crystallised two things; that Maliki would likely out-manoeuvre his rivals, and that those who supported him would want, in return, more than their share of treasure. On the regional chessboard that is Iraqi politics, Maliki’s move was akin to putting his key rival, Iyad Allawi, in check.</p> <p>The price sought has now begun to emerge, along with a picture of how Sadr’s support was won and what it means for Britain and the US, who have invested 4,500 lives, billions of pounds and their international standing in the hope of shaping Iraq as a western-oriented democracy that realigns the regional balance.</p> <p>According to Guardian sources, Maliki’s renewed grasp on power and the Sadrists’ elevation as influence brokers have been brought about by a consortium of the Middle East’s most-powerful Shia Islamic players, whose power bases are rooted in the region’s other main player, arch US foe Iran.</p> <p>It has been spearheaded by the Islamic Dawa party, which opposed Saddam Hussein from a base in Tehran during the Ba’athist years, as well as by Maliki’s adviser, Tareq Najim Abdullah. Sadr and Ayatollah Kazem al-Haeri, a key exiled figure, who has acted as Sadr’s godfather, also led the way.</p> <p>Qassem Suleimani, head of the al-Quds brigades, a division of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, and the head of Lebanese Hezbollah’s politburo, Mohammed Kawtharani, also heavily influenced the process. Above them all, two Shia Islamic overlords, Grand Ayatollah Khameini, and Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah are understood to have been involved in getting Sadr onside. In interviews over the past week, important players in Iraq’s power base have divulged the essence of what they believe the Sadrists demanded from Maliki’s envoys. It includes a grant of three ministries from his own quota, bringing to seven the number of ministries that the Sadrists could hold in a new government.</p> <p>It also includes the position of secretary-general of the cabinet and, crucially, deputy positions in all the security agencies. A total of 100,000 roles allocated to Sadrists in government agencies appears to be on the table, as is a mass release of Sadrist prisoners.</p> <p>A leading Sadrist, Nassar al-Rubaie, said that they were entitled to 25% from each ministry. The Sadrists won 40 seats in the 325-seat parliament. "The electoral process has delivered people who make decisions in this country and we are an important part of that group."</p> <p>Rubaie said the proposals offered by Maliki’s envoys had been enough to win Sadr’s support, even though the cleric had publicly stated that he could not abide a second term for the prime minister whose government he abandoned in 2007. Maliki’s response then was to send the army to rout Sadr’s militia in Sadr City and Basra, igniting a bitter feud.</p> <p>A high-ranking third party was needed to break the stalemate, as trust was non-existent on both sides. In early September, the Iranians made the first move. Haeri told his understudy that Maliki was the way forward; he was not perfect, but both he and the Iranians thought they could work with him.</p> <p>Maliki then made his move. He sent Najim Abdullah and the head of the Dawa party, Abdul-Halim al-Zuhairi, to the Iranian shrine city of Qom, to meet with Sadr. There they met Suleimani, Iran’s most powerful military general and nemesis of the US.</p> <p>Suleimani has led the Quds force for the past 20 years. "He runs Iran’s policy in Iraq," said a senior Iraqi official. "There is no dispute about this."</p> <p>Suleimani is also a key link to Hezbollah in Lebanon and to Hamas in Gaza, supplying weapons, money and training to help oppose Israel. A senior US official in Baghdad claimed this summer that the Iranian military was responsible for about 25% of all US casualties in Iraq. US intelligence officials believe Suleimani’s unit accounted for nearly all of them.</p> <p>According to an authoritative source, Kawtharani was also at the meeting in Qom. The two courtiers, Abdullah and Zuhairi, discussed options with Sadr. He liked what he heard, but would not sign on without a guarantor. Suleimani put his name forward, but Sadr was aiming higher. He sought two of Shia Islam’s highest authorities to ratify what was being put to him – Khameini and Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.</p> <p>Sadr was won over, but Nasrallah’s name came with a condition. According to the source, when Nasrallah, who remained in Beirut, was consulted, he asked for a return guarantee from Maliki that the US military would disappear completely from Iraq by the end of 2011.</p> <p>"Maliki told them he will never extend, or renew [any bases] or give any facilities to the Americans or British after the end of next year," the source said. "They then went to try to smooth things over with the Syrians."</p> <p>Syria was an obstacle in the process, partially because ill-feeling between Maliki and the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, had been exacerbated by Maliki alleging in August 2009 that Damascus was harbouring senior Ba’athist leaders who had blown up two ministries in the centre of Baghdad, undermining his security credentials.</p> <p>"Zuhairi met Assad at Damascus airport. In public and private he was very much opposed to Maliki before the meeting," said the source.</p> <p>Around the same time the Iranians made their second move. Ahmadinejad touched down in Damascus on 18 September on his way to the UN in New York. The pair spoke for two hours. According to a senior Iraqi government official<strong> </strong>in the days afterwards, Assad told his advisers: "Our Iranian friends want Maliki, and Maliki it is."</p> <p>It was a crucial circuit-breaker, which allowed Maliki to make concrete plans for a new administration that would be dramatically different from the last, both in make-up and orientation.</p> <p>Ahmadinejad returned from New York six days later and at a final meeting in Tehran the deal was ratified. The first domino was then tipped – the Sadrists’ announcement. Then came the Shia list’s pledge of support for Maliki.</p> <p>The last seven years have been a tug of war for the heartland of Arabia, underpinned by the nagging strategic challenge of whether Iraq will emerge as a strategic ally of the west.</p> <p>The US was a primary player, but as its military withdraws, its influence plummets. The US embassy in Baghdad had thrown its weight behind a second term for Maliki, believing his secular rival, Allawi, is untenable as leader because his support base is largely Sunni. "That position only served to embolden Maliki and the Iranians," said a senior western diplomat. "It was poorly conceived, poorly executed and utterly disastrous in its consequences."</p> <p>Last week, a US official offered an explanation: "We have switched from frontline players with muscle that we could wield, to straight diplomacy."</p> <p>In July, that same official said: "[The Sadrists'] world view and view of relations with the US is totally incompatible with any relationship that we could have."</p> <p>The US transition from military overlord to would-be democratic partner has escaped no one’s attention, nor has the vacuum left behind gone unremarked.</p> <p>Publicly, however, the Dawa party is maintaining a different line. "There is no contradiction between the Iranian point of view and the US view in forming a new government," said Zuhairi. "For example, the Americans have said this will be a Shia-led government. So, I say the Iraqi project is a reconciliation between Iran and the US."</p> <p>A western official claimed it was "nothing of the sort", then, offering his view on recent US diplomatic efforts, said: "This is nothing less than a strategic defeat.</p> <p>"They could not have got this more wrong if they tried."</p> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/17/iran-secret-deal-political-power-iraq" class="external" target="_blank">How Iran brokered a secret deal to put its ally in power in Iraq | World news | The Guardian</a></p> </div> </div> <hr/> <div class="post clearfix" id="post-10878"> <div class="postmetadata"><span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/03/sadrs-political-role-in-iraq/#respond" title="Comment on Sadr’s Political Role in Iraq">No Comments</a></span> Posted on June 3rd, 2010 by Khaled</div> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/2010/06/03/sadrs-political-role-in-iraq/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Sadr’s Political Role in Iraq">Sadr’s Political Role in Iraq</a></h3> <p class="postmetadata">Category: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/category/english-articles/" title="View all posts in English Language Articles" rel="category tag">English Language Articles</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/category/features/" title="View all posts in Features" rel="category tag">Features</a>, Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/amil/" rel="tag">Amil</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ammar-al-hakim/" rel="tag">Ammar al-Hakim</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/basra/" rel="tag">Basra</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/hezbollah/" rel="tag">Hezbollah</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/history/" rel="tag">History</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/invasion-of-iraq/" rel="tag">invasion of iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/muqtada-al-sadr/" rel="tag">Muqtada al-Sadr</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/parliamentary-election/" rel="tag">parliamentary election</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/parliamentary-elections/" rel="tag">parliamentary elections</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-alliances/" rel="tag">political alliances</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/political-vacuum/" rel="tag">political vacuum</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/provincial-elections/" rel="tag">provincial elections</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/reconciliation/" rel="tag">reconciliation</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-bloc/" rel="tag">Sadrist Bloc</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrist-movement/" rel="tag">Sadrist movement</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadrs/" rel="tag">Sadrs</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/ultranationalism/" rel="tag">ultranationalism</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120504075351/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%83%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b5%d8%af%d8%b1/" rel="tag">حركة الصدر</a></p> <div class="entry" dir="rtl" align="right"> <p>Shiites felt a Washington call to mount an insurrection against Saddam Hussein in March 1991 would be met by U.S. military support. They were wrong, and the acrimony lingers. Meanwhile, the already strained Shiite relationship with the Sunni power centers in Baghdad was fractured further by the 1999 assassination of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr by the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein.</p> <p>Greeting the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the Grand Ayatollah’s son, Moqtada Sadr, who is becoming the éminence grise in Iraqi politics. U.S. administrators in post-invasion Iraq brought much of the exiled opposition and former Shiite militants to power in the new Baghdad. The Shiite population in Iraq, many of whom were marginalized by sanctions and Sunni oppression, cried foul with the new power structures. Washington later, through its surge policy, propped up Sunni tribal elements, leaving Shiite supporters of Moqtada Sadr looking to street politics to stake their claim to power. More than seven years after the U.S.-led invasion and several democratic elections later, the Sadrists in their rise from street tactics to political powerhouse may have christened a king.</p> <p><strong>Sadr’s ideals</strong></p> <p>Drawing on a historic clerical lineage, the modern Sadrist movement grew in part out of a Shiite population frustrated with Western-backed sanctions and the anti-American sentiment that evolved in the wake of a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein in the south in the 1990s.</p> <p>The Sadrs as a clerical establishment had broken with the dominant Shiite clerical ideology in Iraq that largely shunned political involvement. This division, coupled with a strong social organization based on Islamic nationalism and storied clerical lineage, positioned Moqtada Sadr as the embodiment of Shiite martyrdom in the political vacuum of post-invasion Iraq.</p> <p>Sadrist ultranationalism, meanwhile, manifested itself as opposition to former Shiite exiles like Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who came to power under the umbrella of American occupation. Washington, for its part, hoped Maliki would diminish the political influence of the radical cleric Sadr, whose forces waged a bitter war with the U.S. military and embrace tribal Sunni elements in the post-invasion political landscape. </p> <p>Sadrists make no secret of their disdain for Maliki, especially in the wake of a 2008 offensive in the south where Maliki militarily wrestled control away from supporters of the anti-American cleric. Sadrists under the newly christened Iraqi National Alliance (INA) banner, however, launched a successful campaign against Maliki’s State of Law party in the March 7 election for Council of Representatives. Despite talk of a coalition between State of Law and INA, a bitter rivalry between Maliki and Sadrists remains.</p> <p>The Sadrist movement, rallied by a base of disenfranchised Shiites, emerged from the March 7 vote with 40 seats, the largest take for any INA member. An alliance with INA would be four seats shy of the majority needed to form a new government and possibly position Maliki for a second term. Sadrists, however, said Maliki must give up his leadership role.</p> <p><strong>Political trends</strong></p> <p>Maliki in 2006 opposed U.S. pressure on Sadrist forces in order to preserve alliances, but later acquiesced along with Sadrist rivals in the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), splitting the main Shiite political alliance. Maliki later launched his 2008 offensive into Basra, the economic capital of Iraq, to reduce the political influence of Sadrists ahead of provincial elections in January 2009.</p> <p>Washington had advocated a bottom-up strategy of state building in Iraq with its surge, which coincided roughly with Maliki’s push against ultranationalists in the south. By backing the former exile groups and Sunni tribes, however, Washington left much of the populist element of the domestic Shiite population to rally around the political momentum of the Sadrists, who, like Hezbollah in Lebanon, had nurtured a strong base through its social programs.</p> <p>The Sadrist insurgent response to American occupiers and Shiite exiles was not simply an expression of frustration, as political influence in post-invasion Iraq was often gained by a show of strength in the violence that often comes with emerging democracies. Sadr through his insurgency was simply staking out his political turf.</p> <p>The potential for sectarian violence in Iraq amid the current phased withdrawal of American troops and a looming political vacuum, meanwhile, suggests Sadr could effectively reactivate his militia, moving the political fight to the streets, as was the case in the wake of the U.S.-led invasion.</p> <p>Reconciliation in a young democracy is open to groups with violent pasts. This is true in Iraq both for the anti-Saddam former militants in Maliki’s Dawa Party as much as it is for the ultranationalist Sadrist movement, regardless of what Washington wants for Baghdad.</p> <p><strong>The coming of the king</strong></p> <p>Sadrists drifted toward isolation in the wake of the Basra offensive, moving away from the main Shiite power centers while Sadr took exile in Iran to take up clerical studies. The 2008 assault left Sadrists shoved to the sidelines in the south, but they returned in 2010 as kingmakers. This suggests that while Sadr learned that militancy wasn’t the only path to power, his strength as an anti-establishment force gave him noted political influence for a low-ranking cleric.</p> <p>Sadrists and ISCI political entities under the INA banner make up a remarkable show of Shiite unity in Iraq, yet many of the factions in the organization reveal deep divisions once the façade of the alliance is pulled back. Ammar al-Hakim, the leader of ISCI, labeled the Sadr militia as killers in the months before the March vote, reigniting storied animosity between the two Shiite sects. While the endurance of Sadr as the embodiment of Shiite martyrdom is a threat to ISCI and the rest of the Shiite political elite, former exiles and otherwise, it forces them to make room for his nationalist and anti-American zeal.</p> <p>In the wake of a brutal street fight between the Sadrist militia and American forces, Sadrists in 2005 elections emerged with roughly 10 percent of the seats in Parliament. The rise of the anti-American Sadr was met with an equal assault on U.S. ambitions in the region through the vast political support that Iran gave to many of the Shiite forces operating in Iraq.</p> <p>Despite his lack of clerical credentials and little history with formal political action beyond grassroots fervor, Sadr and his supporters have shown remarkable political pragmatism in post-war Iraq. Unless Maliki and his Washington backers are somehow able to sideline the firebrand cleric, Sadr may return from his studies in Iran with the dual distinction of a clerical and political force.</p> <p><strong>The new status quo?</strong></p> <p>Sadr denounced the interim government in Iraq as soon as it was formed by U.S. administrators in July 2003 by establishing a Shiite quasi-theocracy in the south. The Bush administration as a result branded the firebrand cleric and his supporters outlaws, giving disenfranchised Shiites even more reason to rally around the young Sadr.</p> <p>Sadr’s opposition to the U.S. occupation was a continuation of his family’s legacy of nationalism in Iraq. The political decision by Washington to back exiled Shiite elites, many of whom lacked street credibility back home in Iraq, accompanied by a later decision to practice selective reconciliation during the surge, emboldened Sadr’s frustrated constituents, leaving him in a position of political strength.</p> <p>U.S. military officials accused Iran of playing a major role in Shiite political alliances in Baghdad to the tune of roughly $17 million. Sadr, meanwhile, is no doubt influenced by his overseers in Qom. But the Sadrist tradition of ultranationalism not only keeps U.S. dominance at bay, it also checks Iranian ambitions of hegemony as well. While the surge strategy may have brought Iraq back from the brink of civil war, it did little in the way of settling old political scores.</p> <p>The main components under the Shiite political umbrella—ISCI, Maliki’s Dawa Party and the Sadrists—while divided, represent some of the most dominant power centers in Iraq. The Sadrist move away from religious neutrality in political affairs gives the movement political and clerical staying power. With his 40 seats in Parliament, Sadr isn’t going anywhere.</p> <p>Iraq in the wake of the March 7 parliamentary elections stands at a political divide. Maliki, through a political alliance with the INA, would be just four seats shy of the majority needed to form a new government in Iraq. 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