Iraq: Al-Sadr blocked the Kurds deal with Baghdad

Few hours after the Kur­dis­tan Alliance declared its deter­mi­na­tion and the polit­i­cal will to nego­ti­ate the oil law and to visit the Supreme reli­gious author­ity in Najaf, Moq­tada Al-Sadr announced his clear rejec­tion of fed­er­al­ism before the Kurds take this move.

It is unknown yet whether the Supreme Shi­ite cleric Sis­tani, who refuses to receive Iraqi offi­cials will exclude the Kur­dish offi­cials of this deci­sion or not, but Al-Sadr’s rejec­tion to include the dis­puted areas around Kirkuk province to the Kur­dis­tan Region means that the Shi­ite coali­tion failed to unite its posi­tion as well as not hav­ing a uni­fied stand on the cur­rent cri­sis with the Kurds.

Al-Sadr’s rejec­tion state­ment to include the pre­dom­i­nantly Shi­ite areas in Diyala Province to Kur­dis­tan would declare the fail­ure of the Kurds mis­sion in advance.