Iraq's firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, leader of the Sadrist movement, told foreign embassies and diplomatic missions in Baghdad to "comply with the Iraqi peoples demands or leave Baghdad's Green Zone."
"Our protests aren't intended to attack anyone or remove any party of person," Sadr claimed, in a televised address quoted by Anadolu news, "we're not demanding authority or influence, but rather to rid Iraq of those who are exploiting its resources and sapping its strength."
Sadr has frequently led massive marches and rallies of people railing against government corruption. Last February 12 he said that the Iraqi government has 45 days to establish a non-sectarian government made-up of technocrats.
On Friday, according to Anadolu news, he said if those demands were not met before the deadlines expiration his people would retaliate by overrunning the Green Zone in Baghdad.
"In a final attempt," Sadr said, "I call on all Iraqi political parties to enter into dialogue with the Iraqi people and their representatives to end this... government of corruption."
"Everybody must the will of the people, including Iraqi politicians, the government of foreign diplomatic missions," he warned. "We ask them [the foreign consulates] to remain silent or leave the Green Zone."
"Our protests aren't intended to attack anyone or remove any party of person," Sadr claimed, in a televised address quoted by Anadolu news, "we're not demanding authority or influence, but rather to rid Iraq of those who are exploiting its resources and sapping its strength."
Sadr has frequently led massive marches and rallies of people railing against government corruption. Last February 12 he said that the Iraqi government has 45 days to establish a non-sectarian government made-up of technocrats.
On Friday, according to Anadolu news, he said if those demands were not met before the deadlines expiration his people would retaliate by overrunning the Green Zone in Baghdad.
"In a final attempt," Sadr said, "I call on all Iraqi political parties to enter into dialogue with the Iraqi people and their representatives to end this... government of corruption."
"Everybody must the will of the people, including Iraqi politicians, the government of foreign diplomatic missions," he warned. "We ask them [the foreign consulates] to remain silent or leave the Green Zone."
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