Iraq’s Shiite Leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, presents mediation to settle the Syrian crisis

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Leader of Iraq’s Shiite Sadr Movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, has expressed readiness to mediate to settle the Syrian crisis, saying that he took his position due to the “flagrant” American interference, demanding Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, to resign from his post, according to a statement by Sard’s office on Saturday.   “Despite fact that I had stood on the hill for a long time towards the Syrian crisis, but I decided not to continue that, after the clear American interference, by the Leader of evilness, (US President) Obama and others,” the statement quoted Muqtada al-Sadr as saying.   “God bless the Syrian people, supporting the resistance and standing against America , and God-damn all its supporters, while we condemn “Obama’s interference in the Syrian crisis,” Sadr said, expressing readiness to “interfere to achieve reforms, if both sides in Syria agree to that.”   U.S. President, Barrack Obama, has called on Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, to resign, at a time when the majority of European states, with the exception of Russia , were preparing to impose new sanctions against the Syrian regime, in the background of its attacks against protesters that took place over the past few months.   SKH (IT)