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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.
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 ...
Al-Sadr Online is registered in Najaf, Iraq and has utilized the URL alsadronline.net since 21 August 2008. Previously, Al-Sadr's media organization used the URL alsadronline.com. [1] The site is maintained by the High Board for Media of Al-Sadr's Office, the media of office of Hojatoleslam Muqtada Al-Sadr, the leader of the most prominent branch of the Shia Sadrist movement in Iraq. [2]
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 ...
On 27 July, angry about the influence of Iran in Iraqi domestic governance, followers of al-Sadr breached the Green Zone and the Iraqi Parliament in Baghdad. Although after a public message by al-Sadr to "pray and go home," the crowd dispersed. [10]
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]
The move came after the resignation of Grand Ayatollah Kadhim Al-Haeri, the leader of his Iran-based Sadrist movement, which Sadr believed wasn't of his own volition. [3] The unrest was considered the most serious crisis in the country since the defeat of ISIL in the country in 2017, since which Iraq has had relative stability. [4]