Source denies Iran involvement in Basra fights

Is Petraeus lying?, con­trary to what Petraeus said that “Iran mili­tias joined the bat­tle in Basra”, a Kur­dish source told AKI the following:

A shift in Iran pol­icy towards Al-sadr trend, Iran did not inter­vene in the fights in Basra, and did not offer a sin­gle bul­let to sup­port Mahdi Army, there is a strong pos­si­bil­ity of secret agree­ment with the United States that Iran stops sup­port­ing Mahdi Army”.

He also revealed one of the many rea­sons of the fights against the Sadrists:

[The Sadrists] stand against “Federalism” .….

Al-hayat sources reveal that Muq­tada returned to Iraq and he is right now in Najaf, but his spokesman denied this infor­ma­tion [who wants to bet that he was in Beirut? As my own sources in Lebanon told me].

If ban­ning Al-Sadr from the polit­i­cal process is a real­is­tic deci­sion and put in prac­tice [Al-Araji from Sadrists says there are 28 mili­tias] then this means that all the peo­ple asso­ci­ated with the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils” can not par­tic­i­pate in the polit­i­cal process also, accord­ing Jor­dan­ian news­pa­per alghad writer Mah­moud Abu Rumaan:

Accord­ing to my own reli­able sources, dur­ing this month the “National Move­ment for Reform and Devel­op­ment” will be announced which rep­re­sents the “Awak­en­ing Coun­cils”, the 1920 Rev­o­lu­tion Brigades and tribal chiefs expected to com­pete with the Islamic party rep­re­sent­ing the Sunnis.

By con­clu­sion, means rep­re­sent­ing the Sun­nis in the polit­i­cal process.