Sadrists and Iraqi government reached an agreement in Basra…update…Mahdi Army keeps the arms

.…..Update.…

Press con­fer­ence on Iraqi TV right now by the Sadrists, they insist that Mahdi Army still keeps its arms and will not hand them over to the gov­ern­ment. [when he said this TV cuts the broad­cast]

The Iraqi gov­ern­ment sent a del­e­ga­tion [from Badr Brigade, Al-Adib and Al-Amri] to Qom — Iran to nego­ti­ate Al-Sadr before the truce dec­la­ra­tion, notice the Al-Sadr demands are the same and the gov­ern­ment accepted them. [even before the vio­lence started their demands are to stop the raids, to end the arrests of the Sadrists].

.…..End update.….

After the killing of Maliki’s secu­rity adviser “Has­san Al-Kadhmi” by Mahdi Army in Basra today and accord­ing to Wasat Online, the Iraqi gov­ern­ment and the Sadrists reached an agree­ment of nine points [Image if the Al-Sadr state­ment includ­ing the 9 points], no details reported about the details of these points [that will be expected in the com­ing 2 hours in an offi­cial state­ment], the news­pa­per says that among the points is the with­drawal of the Iraqi and Amer­i­can forces from Basra, stop the raids against the Sadrists, Maliki to return to Bagh­dad in 48 hour fol­lowed by the min­is­ters [Defense and Inte­rior].