Sadr urges resistance to occupiers

The leader of Iraq’s Sadr movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, has called on Iraqi people to resist against the occupiers of their homeland by all means and reject America.

During his first speech since returning to the holy city of Najaf after nearly four years away, Sadr said that America, Zionist regime and Britain are common enemies of Iraqi people.

“We still resist the occupier, by military resistance, and all the means of resistance,” he told the crowd of thousands of his followers, saying the Iraqi people should protect their countrymen, AFP reported.

“Our hand will not touch any Iraqi… we only target the occupier, by all means of resistance. We are one people. We don’t agree with some groups that carry out assassinations,” Sadr went on to say.

“Yes, yes for Moqtada! Yes, yes for the leader!” the crowd responded to Sadr while waving Iraqi flags.