Muqtada Al-Sadr interview

The most impor­tant thing Al-Sadr said is:

What ever hap­pened, Mahdi Army will still exist so long the occu­pa­tion exists, no mat­ter what will hap­pen to me.

There will never be Al-Sadr polit­i­cal party because we don’t want reli­gion cler­ics in at the head of the gov­ern­ment, cler­ics will be advi­sors and observers to the gov­ern­ment, it doesn’t mean that we should split reli­gion from pol­i­tics, because pol­i­tics is reli­gion and reli­gion is politics.

What about the sec­tar­ian killing in Iraq, espe­cially by Mahdi Army?

I don’t agree with this sec­tar­ian killing, and I con­demned these killings many times, and I want to open a new page with all Iraqis, Sun­nis or not we all should resist the occupation.

There will be always sec­tar­ian killings, Sunni against Shi­ites, Kurds against Arabs, as long as the Amer­i­cans in Iraq.

Is the strug­gle in Iraq polit­i­cal or sectarian?

At the gov­ern­ment level it is a polit­i­cal, at the pub­lic level is sectarian.

And where are you?

If you noticed, that in the par­lia­ment the Sadrists and the Sun­nis are very close, we always agree and oppose the same laws.

What is exactly your rela­tion with Iran?

I told them to not involve in the Iraqi strug­gle, I told this to Khamenei personally.