Why did al-Sadr abandon his turban during his meeting with Qaani? .. Reveal the scenes of the meeting in 30 minutes

Why did al-Sadr abandon his turban during his meeting with Qaani? .. Reveal the scenes of the meeting in 30 minutes

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With the unveiling of the scenes of the meeting between the leader of the Sadrist movement Muqtada al-Sadr and the commander of the Iranian “Quds Force” Ismail Qaani, some symbolic details that al-Sadr conveyed, including Arab clothes and uniforms, and raising the .issue of ending Iranian interference in front of Qaani in an unprecedented precedent In a report, Reuters revealed exciting details of the meeting, which lasted only half an hour.



According to 4 Iraqi and Iranian officials familiar with the details of the interview, Muqtada .al-Sadr, a leader in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, was received with apparent coldness Al-Sadr wore a black and white keffiyeh of southern Iraq on his shoulders, and a brown cloak, in a deliberate local form, contrasting with the completely black clothes and the Shiite .turban that he usually wears on public occasions chest challenges



Malab al-Sadr conveys a nationalist political message that sums it up: “Iraq is a sovereign Arab country, which will find its way on its own, without interference from its Persian neighbor, despite the sectarian ties between the two countries,” according to the officials .who spoke to the British agency



Al-Sadr challenged the Iranian leader, according to one of the officials, and said: “What is the relationship of Iraqi politics with you? We do not want you to interfere.” He was overwhelmed with a sense of confidence after a series of political gains made by his “Save a Homeland” alliance at the time against Iran and the “coordinating framework” loyal to .Tehran



According to "Reuters", Qaani waited for the moment to meet with Sadr for several months, and the official in charge of the Iranian file in Iraq was apprehensive, according to those . .familiar with the details of the visit

Iranian officials quoted Qaani as saying that if Muqtada al-Sadr included the "coordinating framework", Tehran's allies in any coalition, Iran would consider al-Sadr the main Shiite .political figure in Iraq



Al-Sadr remained steadfast, and stressed in a tweet after the meeting his commitment to a government free of foreign interference, and he said in a written message that was scanned ”.on Twitter: “Neither Eastern nor Western..a national majority government



Muqtada al-Sadr's efforts to counter and defeat Iran's maneuvers only prompted it and its proxies to launch a political and military counter-attack, including missile strikes against .Sadr's Kurdish allies in Erbil and Abu Dhabi, to which the Sunnis allied with al-Sadr