Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi said that what he described as terrorism returned to his head in order to obstruct democracy and preparations for the upcoming elections, and to target Iraqis without discrimination, and his goal is to spread confusion and fuel the abhorrent sectarianism, as he put it.

For his part, the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, criticized the pressures exerted on the people of the Sunni provinces in Iraq from directions he did not name, under the pretext of fighting terrorism, with the approaching electoral competition.

Al-Kazemi added in a cabinet session yesterday, Tuesday, that terrorism has repeatedly tried to penetrate the security cordons of Baghdad, and failed several times before it was able to carry out what he described as the crime of Tayaran Square, referring to the double suicide attack in Tayaran Square in the center of the Iraqi capital, which caused 32 deaths and 110 deaths. Wounded.

In a related context, Al-Sadr said that there is pressure exerted by unnamed parties on the people of the Sunni provinces under the pretext of fighting terrorism, with the approaching electoral competition, which means that the terrorists will exploit this to carry out their terrorist acts, he said.

In his tweet on his personal account on Twitter, Al-Sadr called for the competition to be away from violence and clashes and the sale of the rest of Iraq to those he described as the occupier, adding that it is shameful for political forces to clash for the elections and the governorates as a whole live under the line of poverty, hunger, fear and an epidemic (in reference For the Coronavirus outbreak).

Al-Sadr stressed the need to compete on legal, ethical, democratic and human grounds, away from violence.

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- Muqtada al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (@Mu_AlSadr) January 26, 2021

Early parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 10.

Over the past years, political parties and residents have accused Shiite armed factions of committing violations against the Sunnis during the war against the Islamic State.

The leaders of these factions deny that they committed systematic violations against Sunnis during this war that began in the summer of 2014 and is still continuing to pursue the ISIS remnants.

The violations that international human rights organizations reported, including Human Rights Watch, ranged from field executions, torture, enforced disappearances, and others.