Sadrists negotiate the disband of Mahdi Army

It is not only that al-Sadr tried to crit­i­cize and dis­tance him­self from Iran yes­ter­day, even his information/cultural advi­sor wrote an arti­cle with harsh critic on his group the Sadrists, al-Marwani under the title “We are pay­ing the price of own mis­takes”, says:

1– One of our first mis­takes, was enter­ing — or the mech­a­nism of enter­ing– the polit­i­cal process, some peo­ple pushed our leader to remain silent fac­ing the wish of the majority.

At that time we had two options to choose from, [first option] fol­low our leader and stay way from the polit­i­cal process as an influ­en­tial oppo­si­tion force, and play our role to halt any polit­i­cal deci­sion that works in the ben­e­fit of the occu­pa­tion…, or [sec­ond option] to enter the elec­tion as one, uni­fied [inde­pen­dent] list, the win is guar­an­teed at that time because of the many sup­port to the Sadrists among the people.

What we did is that we cre­ated our own third option, we entered [the elec­tion] in two scat­tered lists, at this we lost the secret of our strength, and we lost our national unity project, the world saw us join­ing the occu­piers to form an occu­pa­tion gov­ern­ment, here we are right now fight in many front to regain some­thing we already had.

2– Our leader told us to split our effort between arma­ment, edu­ca­tion, media and social unity, what hap­pened is that unspe­cial­ized took the lead, push­ing away the intel­lec­tu­als and the academics…the result; instead of build­ing our own com­mu­ni­ca­tion media to con­front the occu­pa­tion media, our media failed and col­lapsed until the point that we are expect­ing the mercy of some other media, kindly to pub­lish our state­ments or our answers to accusations.

3– [We missed] to use the effec­tive­ness of our regional sur­round­ing, we were sup­posed to form three del­e­gates to strength our local, Arab, inter­na­tional posi­tion and give the oth­ers the oppor­tu­nity to hear us, –for exam­ple– we didn’t notice an attempt from the Sadrists par­lia­men­tar­i­ans to reach the inter­na­tional community.

4– We kept our giant insti­tu­tions locally only that we missed to com­mu­ni­cate with the oth­ers and for­got the huge num­ber of the Sadrists abroad,.…until this day not a sin­gle Sadrists orga­ni­za­tion even tried to com­mu­ni­cate with an Arab or inter­na­tional institutions…

Back to the head­line, al-Rafedain said that Muq­tada al-Sadr to dis­band Mahdi Army soon, the web­site said that that the Sadrists del­e­ga­tion met with recently with Tal­a­bani and the speaker of the par­lia­ment al-mashhadani was fully autho­rized to nego­ti­ate all the con­di­tions, but also some infor­ma­tion about pres­sure faced al-sadr inside his own cir­cle, espe­cially from supreme cleric al-Ha’ari in Qom — Iran.