Update

Today on Egypt­ian news­pa­per Al-Ahram: Sources close to Al-Sadr reported that he is in a coma in the hos­pi­tal in Tehran.

It wasn’t long time ago when I linked to a news report that says “Assas­si­na­tion attempt on Muq­tada Al-sadr”, and that was reported by Sadrists web­site “nahrain net”.

Iraqi Al-Madar weekly reported the following:

Sources close to Muq­tada al-Sadr reported that he is secretly and urgently hos­pi­tal­ized in Tehran, after an assas­si­na­tion attempt, mix­ing poi­son in his food, right now he is in coma, under super­vi­sion of Iran­ian doctors.

I really don’t know the authen­tic­ity of this report but later the report asks a very inter­est­ing question:

Sadrists local lead­ers in Iraq have no knowl­edge of this devel­op­ment to pre­vent con­fu­sion among the Move­ment.…… but the ques­tion is; who is the legit­i­mate heir of the Sadrist Move­ment? And could it be linked to the cur­rent divide within the Iran­ian institutions?

Not exactly con­firm­ing this news, Al-Qabas report today hints to some­thing sim­i­lar and refers to the con­flict reports about Al-Sadr “res­ig­na­tion” let­ter [images of the let­ter 1, 2 ] and adding more details:

Sadr spokesman Salah al-Obeidi denies that Al-Sadr is absent from pol­i­tics, stressed that the state­ment was misinterpreted.

The report adds this:

The fact is; Al-Sadr Move­ment and Mahdi Army are elim­i­nated a time ago coin­cided with the elim­i­na­tion of Yamani Move­ment [Heaven Sol­diers] and other Shi­ite groups…..

……Accord­ing to sources told Al-Qabas that the elim­i­na­tion of Mahdi Army and Muq­tada al-Sadr is done peace­fully after a deal “the Iraqi gov­ern­ment, the United States and Iran, resulted in Ahmadinejad’s visit to Iraq.

The efforts is to selec­tively per­suade sev­eral Sadrists groups to hold their place in the polit­i­cal process.

The report links the events to the pre­vi­ous assas­si­na­tion report and came up with this conclusion:

The occu­pa­tion author­ity in Iraq is still work­ing on form­ing a Shi­ite “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” from the Sadrists – leftovers.