Qais Khazali, Secretary General of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq Movement in Iraq, said that holding early elections in light of the government's resignation and the unstable security situation is a great risk that could lead to civil war.
Khazali added in an interview with Al-Jazeera that will be broadcast later, that there is an American-Israeli-Emirati project to exploit the demonstrations to sabotage, pointing out that a consensus on the personality of the next prime minister is currently unlikely.
He explained that one of the reasons for the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi was his rejection of US President Donald Trump's request to hand over half of Iraqi oil in exchange for the reconstruction of Iraq.
Khazali last month accused external parties of trying to stoke chaos and internal fighting, and mentioned Israel, America and the United Arab Emirates.
He added during a television interview that one of the three presidencies - in addition to a senior commander of one of the security services - is the internal party involved in what he called "the conspiracy."
Al-Khazali considered during his meeting that Iraq could not be stabilized unless the arms were confined to the state, indicating that the crowd is from the state apparatus and that trying to draw it to confront the masses means that Iraq has lost its source of strength.
Since the beginning of last October, Iraq has been witnessing demonstrations calling for political reform, accountability for the corrupt and job creation. Violent confrontations between the security forces and the demonstrators resulted in the deaths of about 460 people and the injury of nearly 20,000 others, according to Iraqi human rights sources.