Al-Maliki calls for prosecuting al-Sadr if he does not present evidence for the "threats" claims

2022-02-20 11:16

Shafaq News/ The head of the State of Law Coalition, Nouri al-Maliki, called on the Iraqi judiciary to prosecute the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, if he fails to present evidence for the threats he claimed he received.

Al-Sadr on Friday lashed at the threats made against his "allies and partners" in the "national majority government", hinting at "cross-boundary" intentions to exert hegemony over Iraq.

In a strongly-worded tweet he shared, the firebrand cleric quoted a verse from popular poetry, "It is not me who is threatened by death..nothing scares those who follow Mohammad," in reference to his late father, Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr.

"once again, the voices of predators, that recognize threatening as their only dialect, rise again. Once again, they are threatening the allies and partners in a national majority government that is neither eastern nor western."

"Enough threats," he said, "we will not hand the country back to corrupts and sell the country to [parties] across the borders. The majority of people are with the national majority government. We will stand idly and will not allow terrorism and corruption control us."

Al-Maliki tweeted earlier today, "we resolutely refuse what we saw and heard on media about death threats against some political figures."

Al-Maliki cast doubts on the credibility of those claims "in the absence of evidence",  "if those threats were real, we demand those figures to present their evidence to judiciary and we will endorse them. However, if the threats were not proven by unrefutable evidence, we demand the judiciary to hold them liable to hinder the confusion to the security, stability, and peace in the country."

Earlier today, the leader of the Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq movement, Qais al-Khazali, accused "a figure known with its external ties" of "lying to sow sedition" between the Shiite parties, warning of "ongoing sedition plots".

In a tweet he shared earlier today, Sunday, al-Khazali said that "a figure known with its external ties conveyed a threat. The aim of this lying is sowing a 'Shiite' sedition."

"What happened over the past two days is evidence that the plot of sedition is ongoing and precautions is a must," he added, "the people trusted by certain parties are not trustworthy."

Al-Khazali quoted a public saying, "a trustworthy person would never betray you, but a betrayer can be trusted."

"The solution for those cases is direct communication or going to court, away from media," he continued.

On Friday, Al-Sadr lashed at the threats made against his "allies and partners" in the "national majority government", hinting at "cross-boundary" intentions to exert hegemony over Iraq.

In a strongly-worded tweet he shared, the firebrand cleric quoted a verse from popular poetry, "It is not me who is threatened by death..nothing scares those who follow Mohammad," in reference to his late father, Mohammad Sadiq al-Sadr.

"once again, the voices of predators, that recognize threatening as their only dialect, rise again. Once again, they are threatening the allies and partners in a national majority government that is neither eastern nor western."

"Enough threats," he said, "we will not hand the country back to corrupts and sell the country to [parties] across the borders. The majority of people are with the national majority government. We will stand idly and will not allow terrorism and corruption control us."

Iraqi parliament speaker Mohammad al-Halboosi, an ally of the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr, accused "unrestrained wills" of attempting to undermine the prestige of the state and "threatening the people".

"We did not fear the arms of who came before and will not tolerate the threats of those who followed. We did not, and will not, change our approach that is committed to building the state away from violence," he tweeted.

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