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Lawfare (blog)
August 23, 2017
Two advantages distinguish al-Sadr from his rivals: the legacy of his father, Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, and the mobilizing capacity of the Sadrist movement. These factors may enable him to forestall Iran's creeping domination of Iraq and propel Iraq's political class toward reform. While hisÃâà...
The New Arab
July 31, 2017
... Peace, is probably the most highly desired final resting place of many Shia Muslims around the word. Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, father of firebrand cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr, and who formerly served as Grand Ayatollah before his assaination, is but one of the high-ranking clerics buried here.
Christian Science Monitor
May 3, 2017
He has strong opposition credentials: When Moqtada Sadr's father, the Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, was assassinated in Najaf in 1999, his followers in Sadr City rioted in a rare and dangerous show against Saddam Hussein. The latest Sadr has taken up the family mantle ofÃâà...
Middle East Eye
March 20, 2017
Sadr is also following the line of his soft-spoken but passionately patriotic father, Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, who was murdered by agents of Saddam Hussein in 1999. Read more ▻. Trump, here's a solution for Iraq after the defeat of IS. Muqtada al-Sadr's overtures to Sunnis are having aÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 1, 2016
They were mobilised and given an outlet for their grievances by the Sadrist movement, established by the charismatic Ayatollah Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, whose son Muqtada now leads the movement. The making of these militias is the disorder of the post-2003 political order. The collapse of the stateÃâà...
Middle East Eye
June 11, 2016
Among the most-visited graves are those of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, killed in an ambush in 1999, whose son Moqtada al-Sadr would in 2004 seize the Imam Ali shrine in defiance of the US occupation authorities. Despite the huge expanse of the graveyard, there are nowÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
May 9, 2016
Sadr has become the voice of Iraq's Shia underclass and has continued the legacy of his father, Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr. The senior Sadr established a significant following and social base during the 1990s, when Iraq's destitute Shia population suffered both from the repression of the Baath regime andÃâà...
The Independent
February 28, 2016
The two bombs were detonated in a mobile phone market in Sadr City, a primarily Shia district in the suburbs of the Iraqi capital. According to Iraqi police, the men arrived in the crowded market on motorcycles before detonating their suicide bombs. Shi'ite areas of Baghdad have long been targeted by Isis,Ãâà...
