Hardline Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr returned to Iran after a few weeks to test the political climate in his homeland, Iraq, after a long exile, according to officials in the movement, on Saturday (22 / 1) local time. “Yes, certainly Sayyed Moqtada al-Sadr returned to Iran,” said a source in his office who are not willing to reveal his name.
Still can not clearly known whether the character is returned to Iran for a while or whether she intended to stay there for some time, may continue religious studies in Qom City, Iran.
A former senior member of Sadr’s militia, the Mahdi Army, said that the scholars return to Iran was a “surprise”. Meanwhile, a member of his political bloc said that al-Sadr will soon return to Iraq. Sadr’s return to Iraq on 5 January shook the Iraqi political arena after a four-year exile in Iran Sadr on the orders of arrest against him issued by the U.S..
Shortly after returning to Iraq, Sadr called on his supporters to resist U.S. occupation by all means. Sadr gain widespread popularity among Shias few months after the US-led invasion in 2003, and then the Mahdi Army to fight U.S. forces and Iraqi government in a bloody confrontation.
In his first public speech after returning to Iraq, Sadr urged the government to respect a promise not to allow U.S. troops stay in Iraq. The number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq to shrink below 50,000 last August when the U.S. military changed its role as a counselor and help the Iraqi forces and not lead the battle against the guerrillas.