According to press reports, unknown assailants assassinated the leader of the Sadrist movement, Musallam Idan, yesterday evening (Saturday).
Al-Arabiya channel reported that the security authorities found the body of Idan in the Chechnya area in the center of Maysan province, with traces of gunfire.
She added that the police transferred the body to the forensic medicine department and opened an investigation into the accident.
Al-Aidan’s assassination comes hours before the first session of the Iraqi parliament was held today (Sunday), following the parliamentary elections that took place in the country on October 10 (October) last, which was led by the Sadrist movement with 73 seats.
The Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr stressed yesterday that there is no place for sectarianism, ethnicity, militias or corruption in the next national majority government in the country. Al-Sadr said, in a tweet to him on his personal account on the social networking site “Twitter”, today: “There is no place for sectarianism, no place for ethnicity, no place for corruption, no place for militias, and everyone will defend the rights of minorities, Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds in a national majority government.”
He added that “all Iraqi sects will support reform and support the army, police and security forces, and the law will prevail with an impartial Iraqi judiciary, and our decision is Iraqi Shiite, Sunni, Kurdish, Turkmen, Christian, Shabak, Yazidi, Sabean, and everyone defends the rights of others, not subordination.”
According to a statement by the Iraqi parliament, MP Mahmoud al-Mashhadani will chair the parliament’s session in the opening session tomorrow, as he is the oldest member.
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