Supporters of the Sadrist movement broke through the protective wall of the Iraqi parliament, and Iraqi security forces called on the demonstrators to immediately leave the “green zone” in the center of Baghdad.

Earlier in the day, al-Sadr Iraqi leader Muqtada al-Sadr announced the “final retirement and closure of all institutions except the Shrine, the Noble Museum and the al-Sadr Heritage Office.”

Notably, the office of the leader of the Sadr movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced last June that “deputies of the Sadrist bloc in the Iraqi parliament have signed their resignations and are under the orders of Muqtada al-Sadr.

The leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq, Muqtada al-Sadr, ordered the deputies of his bloc to “resign from the House of Representatives”, stressing that “the reform of the country will be carried out only through the government of the national majority.” He pointed out that “my dear deputies from the bloc of Adept Sadrs should write their resignations and submit them to the Presidium of the House of Representatives after being instructed to submit them in exchange for days”, explaining that “if the survival of the bloc of adepts – Sadrov is an obstacle to the formation of a government, all representatives of the bloc are ready to resign.

Al-Sadr’s decision came amid continued obstruction of the formation of a new federal government, which the leader of the “Sadr Movement” had previously described as “artificial”.