Hawzah News Agency- Ayatollah Seyyed Yassin al-Mousawi, the Friday prayer leader of Baghdad and a prominent professor at the Najaf Seminary, told worshippers that the current regional chaos is inseparable from the ongoing confrontation between Iran and the US-Israeli alliance.
"The political situation in Iraq is complex and unstable, and it cannot be separated from the war between Iran and the United States and the Zionist regime," he said on April 24. He added that the conflict has cast a shadow over the entire region, causing political and economic turbulence in the Persian Gulf states, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Turkey, and even Europe.
On Iraq's domestic front, Ayatollah Mousawi stressed that the selection of a new prime minister must be "completely Iraqi and free from any foreign dictates." He described US efforts to block the transfer of certain Iraqi financial resources as a political pressure tactic aimed at weakening the country's decision-making independence, alleging that Washington does not want an efficient and clean-handed figure to lead Iraq.
The cleric also criticized a proposed compulsory military service bill in the Iraqi parliament as "impractical" under current economic and security conditions. He noted that Iraq already has some 1.2 million security forces, adding, "The Iraqi nation has defended its country in critical times without the need for compulsory laws," pointing to the fight against the Daesh terror group.
Ayatollah Mousawi further dismissed accusations raised in a recent Arab foreign ministers' statement against Iran as lacking real evidence, calling them politically motivated. He also criticized certain regional countries for making their military bases available to foreign powers, which he said have become targets of Iranian retaliatory strikes.
The Baghdad imam called for a fundamental revision of regional states' relations with the US and proposed a cooperative mechanism between Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan as an alternative to reliance on external powers.
"Continued political dependency could lead to a widespread crisis in the region if a new war breaks out," he warned, adding that military and technological advances—particularly in Iran—are fundamentally shifting the power balance.
Ayatollah Mousawi concluded that regional stability can only be achieved through independence and decision-making based on national sovereignty, urging countries to avoid conflicts that do not serve the interests of their nations.
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