{"id":9339,"date":"2014-06-14T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-14T22:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9339"},"modified":"2014-06-14T22:55:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T22:55:34","slug":"muqtada-sadr-calls-for-a-military-parade-across-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/muqtada-sadr-calls-for-a-military-parade-across-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Muqtada Sadr calls for a military parade across Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his supporters to hold a general military parade across the country next Saturday to enhance unity among Iraqis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our beloved country is surrounded by peril and enemies have invaded it. To boost unity and readiness, I call on all of you to hold a military parade across the country as a show of our power to fight against our armed foes,&#8221; Sadr said in a statement posted on his website.<\/p>\n<p>A special committee should be formed in order to perform the military parade, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Sadr called on forming defense units against radical militants for protecting country\u2019s religious sites.<\/p>\n<p>A state of emergency was declared in Iraq by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Tuesday after radical militants from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant launched a major offensive in several parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sadr said in an earlier statement that he was ready &#8220;to form peace units to defend the holy places&#8221; of both Muslims and Christians, in cooperation with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.alalam.ir\/news\/1602836\">Al Alam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on his supporters to hold a general military parade across the country next Saturday to enhance unity among Iraqis. &#8220;Our beloved country is surrounded by peril and enemies have invaded it. To boost unity and readiness, I call on all of you to hold a military parade across &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[933,162,50,905,910,163],"class_list":["post-9339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-breaking-news","tag-headline","tag-iraq-2","tag-isis","tag-muqtada-al-sadr","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9342,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9339\/revisions\/9342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}