Photo source: Middle East Eye By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront In late August 2022, Muqtada al Sadr went on Twitter to announce his resignation from politics. Sometime before, when Grand Ayatollah Kadhim al Haeri, whose followers contain a large number of Sadrists, had resigned as well, he had asked the Shia population to obey Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. For some watchers, this was seen as an attempt to weaken the Sadrist movement in Iraq. After Sadr’s tweet, thousands of his followers stormed the Iraqi capital Green Zone, the Republican palace, and key government buildings in Baghdad. Since then, the Iraqi capital has witnessed strong intra Shia-confrontations, between Sadr’s supporters and variety of armed groups loyal to different factions, within the Shia Coordination Framework, a pro-Iran set of parties. Hundreds have been injured and tens killed. To save his reputation, Sadr apologised to the Iraqi people for the bloodshed. As per an Oped by Hussein Ibish,...