Will the current events in Iraq develop into an internal “fighting”? BBC News Arabic

He adds that the leader of the Sadrist movement, his deputies and his followers “challenged the forces of the coordinating framework and bet on the failure of their formation of the government, and the political parties understood the challenge of the Sadrists, that they would resort to the streets, demonstrations and sit-ins, leading to the invasion of government offices and Parliament in the Green Zone, as they did previously during the Haider al-Abadi government. The specific purpose this time is to thwart the coordination framework government that excluded them.

But he raises several questions, including: “Why did al-Sadr give up his electoral entitlement? Why did he fail his voters who made his victory in the largest bloc? What will he achieve by resorting to the street and demonstrations? What are his demands now?” It is the only language that the Sadrist movement seeks to use in confronting its Shiite political opponents.

He believes that “the Sadrist leaks set a very high ceiling for their demonstrations, which is: “Dissolving the parliament and declaring an emergency government with open powers until early elections are held. Dissolving the Supreme Judicial Council and the Federal Court, and appointing a new Judicial Council composed of independent judges who are not affiliated with parties and are not controlled by outside parties.

And he concludes, “The haunting question that revolves today in the Iraqi street: Is it possible for one of the Sadrists to turn into a Shiite-Shiite fighting as a result of the loosening of the borders of the conflict between the parties that own armed factions?

In an article by Abdelwahab Badrakhan, published simultaneously in the Saudi newspapers Al-Watan and Al-Nahar in Lebanon, he sees that “what the politicians of Iraq do not recognize is that they are not in a difficult situation, in an advanced cancerous condition, and that they contribute to its exacerbation.”

He adds that “one of the most dangerous factors of cancer is that its beginnings are chronic and no early diagnosis was made of it, as the previous regime was able to hide or postpone the symptoms of the disease, and soon the decisions of the American occupation killed the immune systems when the state, army and institutions dissolved all to rely on Iran’s followers to restore Its establishment, and with the American withdrawal coinciding with the completion of the Iranian occupation elements, the cancer had expanded and became in need of an organized treatment.”

Badrakhan says: “From all the repression, the Iraqis, by voting or by boycotting, sent a clear message to Tehran, whose followers lost. Currently, the option of going to new early elections is being proposed, the results this time may be catastrophic for Iran’s candidates and militias. The country wants to live, and the conflict continues. between healthy and cancerous cells.

Under the title “Iraq is slipping quickly to the brink of civil war, and patchwork solutions will not suffice”, the London-based Rai Al-Youm newspaper says in its editorial that the recent developments have proven that “supporters of the Sadrist movement who took the initiative and took to the streets in the hundreds of thousands, made all of their opponents, or most of them, in defense case.

The newspaper adds that “Iraq’s biggest problem, in the eyes of many observers, lies in the progress of sectarianism over the united national identity, and the growing foreign interventions that sow the seeds of division, because its owners do not want a strong Iraq, and on top of these is the United States of America, which still maintains great bases and influence. Inside Iraq, followed by Iran of course.

Under the title “The Al-Sadr-Al-Maliki Sedition: Excessive ambitions exhaust Iraq,” Hussein Ibrahim warns in the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar of “the risk of moving to an armed conflict that will not leave or leave. A conflict that is difficult to imagine how it will end, and what will be its impact on Iran, which the Americans and some countries of the region are working on.” on turning Iraq into a ball of fire in its hands.”

Ibrahim believes that “the problem, now, is summed up in the excessive ambitions of both al-Sadr and al-Maliki. The first saw the results of the recent elections, which gave him 73 deputies in the 329-seat parliament, an opportunity to shorten the representation of the Shiites in his person… while the second took advantage of the rejection of other Shiite factions.” This formal participation, to present himself as an alternative, given that he has the largest number of deputies among the factions of the coordination framework, which makes these factions embarrassed in rejecting his candidacy, or the nomination of his representative for prime minister.

Ammar al-Sawad also sees in the London-based Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper that Al-Sadr seeks “to lead over the Shiites of Iraq. The timing for such a step seemed politically appropriate. Iran, after the 2019 demonstrations and the killing of Qassem Soleimani, lost much of its influence, and Al-Sadr presents himself as independent of Ali Khamenei’s influence.”

On the other hand, some commentators blame Iran.

In this regard, Mashari Al-Dhaidi says in the London-based Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper: “There are many and old reasons that led to this internal Iraqi explosion, including, not all of them a ‘here’ that was invented by Iran and marketed to its followers, not only in Iraq but also in Lebanon. Its conclusion is to circumvent the results of the elections, if The defeat of its followers, as happened in Iraq’s recent parliamentary elections, became clear by assembling and fabricating a new majority in Parliament and talking about political weight instead of electoral weight, which means making the electoral race “sterile” if its outcomes are against them.

He asks: “Muqtada is trying to bury this heresy… Will he succeed?”