Sistani will never put his authority at risk and orders the disband Mahdi Army

There are many Amer­i­can pro­pa­ganda web­sites report­ing false infor­ma­tion that Sis­tani issued an order to dis­band the Mahadi Army.

I wrote about al-Sadr’s point of view to con­nect the Mahdi Army issue to the senior cler­ics, Nazar Hatim on Al-Qabas wrote the Sis­tani point of view on this mat­ter, a very good argu­ment answers the ques­tion: Why Sis­tani will never issue an order [or fatwa] to dis­band Mahdi Army.

After the writer shows the sim­i­lar­ity between Sistani’s posi­tion from the occu­pa­tion and senior cleric AL-Yazdi who chal­lenged the British occu­pa­tion in 1918, the writer said the following:

Sis­tani is very sen­si­tive to the his­tory of his pre­de­ces­sors, and think­ing con­tin­u­ously about what his­tory books are going to write about him.…

Also, the argu­ment of Al-Sadr pro­posal is totally tuned up with Sistani’s way of think­ing in these two points:

First: The trend [Sadrists] are not depen­dent on Moq­tada Al-Sadr but on the rep­u­ta­tion of his father Moham­mad Al-Sadr who cre­ated [the ide­ol­ogy] before he was killed by [for­mer regime], there­fore the des­tiny of the trend should be a sub­ject of the supreme Shi­ite authority.

Sec­ond: Moq­tada and the other lead­ers in the Sadrists trend repeat­edly said that dis­band­ing the Mahdi Army [will be put in prac­tice] only is there is an Iraqi gov­ern­ment after the with­draw of the occupation.

Muq­tada Al-Sadr is play­ing Petraeus game, a mat­ter of buy­ing time for a polit­i­cal trans­for­ma­tions [Al-sadr] or Amer­i­can pres­i­den­tial elec­tions [Petraeus].

Some points need to be clar­i­fied about Maliki’s tac­tic con­nect­ing the dis­band of Mahdi Army with the com­ing provin­cial elec­tion, and Al-Sadr maneu­ver to con­nect the whole with the supreme clerics.

Al-Sadr real­izes that his Shi­ite rivals [the Supreme Islamic Coun­cil] is not seri­ous about hold­ing the provin­cial elec­tions, they even did not approved the law only after pres­sure from Dick Cheney.

Al-Sadr asked the advice of reli­gious seniors, is impor­tant step with two levels.

First: It sent a let­ter to mem­bers of “the mid­dle class and poor Iraqi Shi­ite” about his will­ing­ness to renounce vio­lence and to show him­self a man of peace and hold the gov­ern­ment forces respon­si­ble for any pos­si­ble violence.

Sec­ond: To impli­cate al –Sis­tani, who rarely engages in polit­i­cal issues directly, in an attempt to medi­ate with the gov­ern­ment to reduce the attacks on the Mahdi Army and put his enor­mous moral weight in the Shia com­mu­nity guar­an­tees the pos­si­bil­ity of hold­ing the provin­cial elections.

The con­clu­sion is in this line on Al-Malaf Press :“Every orga­ni­za­tion, or reli­gious move­ment in the South of Iraq is in a way or another is part of Al-Sadr ide­o­log­i­cal line, even those who dis­like Moqtada”.