BREAKING: Influential Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announces his resignation from politics amid protests by his followers.
August 29, 2022 GMT
FILE - Influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in Najaf, Iraq, Feb. 10, 2021. Al-Sadr who's followers have been staging a sit-in outside Iraq's parliament announced his resignation from politics and the closure of his party's offices on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. It is an unexpected plot twist more than four weeks after his supporters stormed the parliament building to prevent his Iran-backed rivals from forming a government.
Shortly after Muqtada al-Sadr announced his “final” retirement from politics, hundreds of his followers rushed to the government palace, the seat of the caretaker government. It was the first time his followers have attempted to breach the palace since thousands of them stormed Iraq’s parliament to prevent al-Sadr’s rivals from forming a government.
Al-Sadr’s statement on Monday was a reaction to the retirement of Shiite spiritual leader Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, who counts many of al-Sadr’s supporters as followers. The previous day, al-Haeri announced he would be stepping down as a religious authority and called on his followers to support Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, not the Shiite spiritual center in Iraq’s holy city of Najaf.
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