Al-Sadr’s concessions to continue, stop all attacks on the American troops

Muq­tada Al-sadr decided to halt all attacks on the Amer­i­can troops in Iraq, allow­ing them to with­draw com­pletely at the end of the year.

This con­tra­dicts, ear­lier deci­sion has been announced some time ago by the leader of the Sadrists Move­ment, fol­low­ing the US deci­sion to send 600 troops of the U.S. sol­diers to pro­vide air cover dur­ing the with­drawal process, Al-Sadr described the US deci­sion as “an attempt to boost its forces in Iraq.”

Sadr’s deci­sion, comes as part of series of con­ces­sions that had started about two months ago, when last July he announced the con­tin­ued freeze the Mahdi Army “even if the Amer­i­cans stayed”.

One last thing to add, Iraqi Prime Min­is­ter Maliki can­celled his visit to Iran for this stage, espe­cially after he had received assur­ances from Tehran about the sit­u­a­tion of Syria, and the threat of Shi­ite leader Muq­tada Al-Sadr.

The Ira­ni­ans told Maliki not to fear from threats by orga­nized demon­stra­tions after Al-sadr left the deci­sion of the demon­stra­tions to the peo­ple, and it has been shown that the size of the demon­stra­tions on Fri­day, does not con­sti­tute a threat to the sta­tus quo.

Worst, Sadrists call their sup­port­ers to demon­strate and thank “Maliki’s government”.