Muqtada al-Sadr: The crisis involved and I call on the Iraqi factions not to start military action

The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, said that the crisis that Iraq suffered was implanted after the recent statements of US President Donald Trump and the Iranian side.

In his introduction to his statement this evening, Wednesday, Al-Sadr pointed to news about the Iranian and American sides communicating with the Iraqi government before the Iranian missile attack on Ain Al-Assad base in Anbar and the Harir base in Erbil, both of which are hosting American forces.

"The two parties contacted the dismissed Prime Minister before the air strike ... Did he agree to implement it or not? God knows best," Al-Sadr said, referring to the head of the caretaker government, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, who had submitted the resignation of his government.

He continued, "What concerns me now is: First, that this severe crisis has taken place, especially after Trump's speech and the speech of the Islamic Republic."

"Secondly, accelerating the formation of a strong and sound government that will restore Iraq to its prestige and independence in a period of no more than fifteen days and without political, parliamentary, sectarian or ethnic polemics," he added.

He also called for "the relentless pursuit to end the occupation's presence and curb its control, increasing influence and interference in Iraqi affairs."

In his statement, Al-Sadr urged the Iraqi factions "to be patient and patient, not to start military action and to silence the voice of militancy from some of the disciplines until all political, parliamentary and international methods have been exhausted."

The leader of the Sadrist movement said that he advised closing all headquarters of the PMF "in order not to be a target for global arrogance, especially if our decision becomes military resistance with the occupier in the event he refuses to leave."

In a televised statement, US President Donald Trump announced that his country does not wish to use military force against Iran, and that it will impose additional economic sanctions on it because the economy is the "biggest deterrent," as he put it.

Trump denied that there were any losses in the ranks of the American or Iraqi forces due to the Iranian missile attack.

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The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced earlier that it would summon the Iranian ambassador to Iraq to inform him of its refusal to launch missile strikes on the two military bases.

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejects these attacks and considers them a violation of Iraqi sovereignty, it calls on all parties concerned to show restraint, work to reduce tension in the region, and not to make Iraq a battlefield to settle their accounts," the ministry spokesman, Ahmed al-Sahaf, said in a statement.