Press Release
The Submission of Abdul Mahdi’s Government to the People’s Just Demands Marks the Beginning of the End of the Era of the Corrupters
(Translated)

After two months of mass protests, which filled the protest squares in the capital Baghdad and the central and southern provinces, during which nearly 500 unarmed rebel youths losttheir lives and more than 15 thousand were wounded or disabled, as a result of excessive violence used by law enforcement forces, or say: tools to preserve the oppression and the oppressors, who fired live bullets, deadly smoke bombs, and rubber bullets to break the willpower of the revolution, which the steadfastness of its people stunned the parties of the power that have wreaked havoc in the country and killed and displaced people, as they were silent like the silence of the graves…

[فَإِذَا هُمْ مُبْلِسُونَ] “and lo! They were plunged into destruction with deep regrets and sorrows.” [Al-An’am: 44]. And every day - until this moment – dead and injured continue to fall here and there around the clock.

This led the government of Abdul Mahdi to bow down and suffer defeat after a year in power, during which no one felt the existence of a state on the ground, except at the level of looting everything that is not their right. Therefore, their President Abdul Mahdi submitted his resignation to the impotent parliament, giving it – as he claimed - a halo of sanctification (for the authority) that has no rationality except its name, claiming that he was careful not to slip the country into chaos, and his looking to complete the remaining years of the unfair mandate that he was assigned to.

But the matter of the corrupters is far from over, and the road ahead is long before they surrender to a handful of politically immature young people - as described by the head of the Popular Mobilization Commission - and the concern is the master of the situation, as the resignation of the government may lead to further bloodshed. If we look at the extent of the losses that the symbols of power will suffer by them getting away with it to the helm of government and what it means (spoils).

Indeed, the victory of the people of Iraq and other peoples in the region over the ruling tyrannical factions will not solve the crises of the Ummah, nor will happiness or the desired aspirations be achieved by replacing unjust democratic regimes and bringing in others of their kind of capitalist doctrine that set forth the arbitration of the law of mankind, and the exclusion of the law of the Lord of humankind, the All-Knower of what is good for them and what provides them with a good life. And here are the nations of the earth, that are haunted by the trick of democracy, have they succeeded in achieving their objectives away from the specter of oppression and exploitation in the most heinous form? Thus, to reach the happiness of the world and the Hereafter, it is necessary to return to the rule of Allah Almighty, the All-Knower, the All-Aware, and other than that is astray and misguidance.

[إِنِ الْحُكْمُ إِلَّا لِلَّهِ يَقُصُّ الْحَقَّ وَهُوَ خَيْرُ الْفَاصِلِينَ]

“The decision is only for Allah. He relates the truth, and He is the best of deciders.” [Al-An’am: 57].

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Iraq