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The Sadrist Movement (Arabic: التيار الصدري al-Tayyār al-Sadrī) is an Iraqi Shi'a Islamic national movement and political party, led by Muqtada al-Sadr.. The Sadrist Movement ended as largest political party in the October 2021 Iraqi parliamentary election, with 73 seats in Parliament, but in June 2022, during the 2021–2022 Iraqi political crisis, Muqtada al-Sadr’s bloc ...
Muqtada al-Sadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر, romanized: Muqtadā aṣ-Ṣadr; born 4 August 1974) [3] is an Iraqi Shia Muslim cleric, politician and militia leader.He inherited the leadership of the Sadrist Movement from his father, [4] and founded the now dissolved Mahdi Army militia in 2003 that resisted the American occupation of Iraq.
After Mohammed al-Sadr was assassinated in 1999, Muqtada al-Sadr succeeded him as the leader of the Sadrist Movement and became one of the most powerful and respected Shia clerics. [1] Following the 2003 invasion of Iraq , Muqtada al-Sadr founded the Mahdi Army , with the goal of expelling American troops from Iraq and establishing an Iraqi ...
A senior Sadrist politician said the movement might seek to ally with some ruling Shi'ite factions, such as popular Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, while isolating others including arch ...
Tensions between the two Shiite groups began with the 2021 parliamentary election when Iran-backed Shiite blocs lost seats to the Sadrist, an anti-Iranian movement. Despite winning the most seats in the election, the Sadrist failed to form a government and Sadr eventually pulled his political bloc from parliament in June 2022.
Note: the Sadrist Movement boycotted the Council of Representatives from 13 June to 17 July 2007 in protest of the 2007 al-Askari Mosque bombing [2]. Note that the Sadrist Movement quit the United Iraq Alliance in September 2007 [3]
2022 Iraq parliament attack; ... came after news was leaked about the nomination of Shiite forces opposed to the Sadrist movement, Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani, ...
The Sadrist News section of Al-Sadr Online provides extensive reporting on the daily activities of Muqtada Al-Sadr's political and cultural organizations. The articles, which generally include photos or illustrations, cover the wide range of community service activities Sadrist organizations organize throughout Iraq, especially in the Shia majority southern provinces.