Iraqi top cleric calls on Iraqis to turnout in elections

Iraq’s senior leader Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday called on Iraqis to participate in the upcoming Iraqi elections set to be held on March 7.

Sadr expressed hope that the parliamentary elections will be the beginning of Iraqi people independence and unification.

Meanwhile a candidate for the list of State of Law Coalition for the elections told Al-Alam on Sunday that “Saudi Arabia is ruining his country.”

Thaer al-Feili said: “Saudi Arabia has done nothing for Iraq but provoke sectarian violence and send terrorists, including al-Qaeda terrorists and bombers who have destroyed Iraq and killed people.”

He said that Saudi officials are dependent on the Baath party in the parliamentary elections “because only the Baathists are ready to sell their country to foreigners.”