Muqtada responds after getting big boost from Nasrallah

If any­body both­ered him­self to ana­lyze Has­san Nas­ral­lah speech yes­ter­day, he will read the direct boost he gave to Muq­tada Al-Sadr [and other fac­tions]. Sad to see that Iraqi intel­lec­tu­als and pub­lic silence, not con­demn­ing this treaty.
Just like Iraqi writer Amal Al-Sharqi on Al-Arab Al-Yawm said:

Despite its seri­ous­ness, the three hun­dred Iraqi par­ties and blocs, one hun­dred news­pa­per and even the Iraqi resis­tance are totally silent about the Iraq — the U.S. long term pres­ence treaty nei­ther the Iraqi pub­lic opin­ion seems inter­ested in this issue.

Where is the Iraqi anger that dropped Portsmouth treaty in 1948, or the demon­stra­tion against Bagh­dad Pact in 1955.

The only analy­sis I found is pub­lished on Al-Quds Al-Arabi, answer­ing a ques­tion I came across many times on Ara­bic web­sites: Why Hezbol­lah is silent about the sit­u­a­tion in Iraq?

Per­haps Nasrallah’s hints to the sit­u­a­tion in Iraq is the most sur­pris­ing point in his speech, and his demands from the Iraqi resis­tance, Sunni and Shi­ite to lib­er­ate their coun­try, is a direct answer to the crit­i­cism of tak­ing the side of the [Iraqi] gov­ern­ment and sec­tar­ian Shi­ite parties.

Nas­ral­lah, puts his weight behind Al-Sadr trend, and other armed groups, Sunni and Shi­ite reli­gious or sec­u­lar, and all the fac­tions who fight the occu­pa­tion, [this] shift in his posi­tion, will have strong reflec­tion on the Iraqi arena in the com­ing weeks or months.

The Amer­i­can embassy in the Green Zone reacted faster accord­ing to Nahrain­net saying:

Sources said that the Amer­i­can embassy asked the Iraqi gov­ern­ment to issue a state­ment con­demns Nasrallah’s invi­ta­tion to the Iraqi resistance…The Amer­i­can embassy received assur­ances that there will answers to Nasrallah’s speech.

Muq­tada Al-Sadr responded today directly show­ing his rejec­tion to the treaty, but the most impor­tant part in his reac­tion is that he con­firms that there is a writ­ten Fatwa that for­bid the U.S. — Iraq treaty. The most impor­tant point is his nine points instruc­tions to the pub­lic and the spe­cial­ists [his words] is num­ber four; “Demon­stra­tion every Fri­day, after the Friday-prayer, all in their places ’till set­ting other date or the can­cel­la­tion of the treaty”.

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