Members of a group calling itself "Rub of God" deployed in Iraq in cars and military uniforms Thursday morning in the Iraqi capital (Baghdad), and raised pictures and slogans insulting to the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazemi, a move condemned by the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr, considering that resorting to weapons to investigate The demands are "rejected".

Social media accounts close to the armed Shiite factions published pictures and videos of the military parade by the "Rubu Allah" group.

Pictures and video clips showed that the group wears costumes and drives similar cars to those obtained by the PMF factions.

Accounts on communication sites close to the armed factions circulated a statement attributed to the so-called "Quarter of God Movement", in which they said that they would cut off the ears that do not listen to them and place them at the gates of the Green Zone in case their demands for approval of the budget were not met as soon as possible and the exchange rate of the dollar returned. The US dollar against the Iraqi dinar, as it was previously, and the Iraqi Kurdistan government’s failure to hand over its share of the budget without paying oil dues and crossings.

Commenting on this, the spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, Major General Tahseen Al-Khafaji, confirmed that the review had ended and security efforts had begun to determine the causes of the spread of the militants.

Al-Sadr considered that using weapons to achieve the demands is rejected (communication sites)

Chest criticism

The leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, was quick to criticize the parade of the factions, calling on the Popular Mobilization Authority to punish the party that had reviewed militarily or to declare its innocence.

Al-Sadr said in a tweet on his Twitter account that an armed group had paraded militarily in Baghdad in order to change the exchange rate of the dollar, indicating that the use of weapons to fulfill the demands is rejected, and the government must prevent it from being repeated again.

Al-Sadr warned the party that reviewed it against breaking the prestige of the state or undermining it, pointing out that this review was not with the approval of the government, and continued, "This party that performed the show, if it belongs to the crowd, the crowd must punish it, otherwise it is declared innocent."

He explained that he left the decision to raise or reduce the exchange of the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar to the specialists in this regard, calling on the Iraqi government to prevent raising prices in the markets from traders.

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- Muqtada al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Sadr (@Mu_AlSadr) March 25, 2021

It is noteworthy that the Governor of the Central Bank, Mustafa Ghaleb Makhif, was nominated by the Sadrist movement’s Sairoun coalition to take over the post.

The Iraqi government recently raised the price of the dollar against the local currency from 1184 dinars to 1450 dinars to the dollar at the selling prices approved by the Ministry of Finance of the Central Bank of Iraq, and this step was negatively reflected on the prices of goods and commodities and the daily needs of the citizen at rates not less than 25%.

The "Quarter of God" group is a movement likely to have appeared in October 2020, and observers believe that it is directly linked to the Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades. It opposed the popular protests, described the demonstrators as Al-Jouria and accused them of working abroad, and in previous times it burned the headquarters of the MBC channel. Iraq “(mbc iraq) against the background of the broadcast of the mother channel, MBC (mbc), a report which they believe included an insult to the person of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the former deputy head of the Popular Mobilization Authority, who was killed in an American raid accompanied by the Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani near Baghdad airport in early 2020, the burning of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party led by Masoud Barzani in Baghdad, and the closure of massage centers, suspected of being behind the bombing of shops selling alcoholic drinks in Baghdad.