Muqtada Al Sadr
Muqtada Al Sadr considers US embassy employees "occupiers; should be fought":
In response to a query of one of his followers about the increase of the embassy employees' number from 5000 to 15000 after the expiry of SOFA, Muqtada said "they are all occupiers and resisting them after the end of the agreement is an obligation." Ref. Source 5
Key Shiite Iraqi cleric (Muqtada al-Sadr) says he quits politics:
Al-Sadr has made such announcements before, but the current declaration comes only two months before national parliamentary elections. Sadrists hold 40 out of 325 seats in the legislature, making them the largest single Shiite bloc, and hold six Cabinet seats. Ref. Source 7