Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend D.Khatinoglu / The radical Shiites Leader, Mogtada-al-Sadr, will not be able keep his word to cease the unofficial military group's activities which he leads.
"Not all disposals of the organization's Executive Board are in Mogtada-al-Sadr's hands of and he will not keep his promise," said Iranian politician, Alireza Nourizadeh, who functions in London.
The Head of the military group said that the activity of "Jeysh-al-Mahdi" will be ceased for a period of six months. Senior official of Iraq welcomed this decision. The advisor of Iraq's Ministry of National Security, Movaffaq al-Rabii, said in his interview with BBC that he assesses Al-Sadr's decision as an important step towards stability in Iraq. According to him, urgent action with regards to Iraq's security is expected to commence after temporarily lapsing the group's activities.
Iranian political scientist said in a telephone discussion with Trend that this was not the first statement made by the radical Shiite leader. The last statement was made after the parliamentary elections in Iraq.
"The organizer of Jeysh-al-Mahdi confirmed, whilst establishing its group, that it would not be a military group. Al-Sadr promised work in the sphere of culture, but after a while Jeysh-al-Mahdi commenced its armed struggle against US, British and even Iraqi divisions. Furthermore, they fought against Abd-al-Aziz Hakim, the Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Assembly of Iraq, and the Badr group of Shiite," Nourizadeh stressed.
The political expert believes that Al-Sadr was forced to make this statement after public accusations of terror attacks organized by his people in Karbala and the sharp response by Iraqi officials. The group collapsed and went out of control under the influence of al-Sadr.
"Some members of Jeysh-al-Mahdi have been trained in Iran and receive instruction from that country. Consequently Iranian officials have refused to comment on the statement by Mogtada al-Sadr.
Iran is accused of crimes committed in Karbala by some organization and groups acting in Iraq. On 29 August, the Governor of Iraq accused the neighboring country of attempting to damage relations amongst the Shiites," Nourizadeh said.
On the eve of the publication of a decision by al-Sadr, a terror attack was committed in Karbala during the festivities dedicated to Imam Sahib-al-Zaman's birthday. Over 50 Muslims were killed. Suspicion for the attack was directed towards al-Sadr's people.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri-al-Maleki regarded the incident in Karbala as an intention to provoke diversion on Imam Hossein's grave.