Arabic → English transcript

I do not get involved in politics,

and I said that yesterday I retired,

and this is a final retirement because

it is a religiously binding retirement,

not just a retirement from politics, social matters, and other things,

no, religiously

the marjaʿ said there will be no more interference.

No more interference, that is it, that is all.

May God keep you safe, may God keep you safe.

How do you see Iraq’s political future? I have nothing to do with it anymore,

I am an Iraqi citizen and I have nothing to do with any politics or anything.

What do you say to the third party that… Is there a third party?

Our master, Your Eminence,

with regard to the blocs that are forming the government?

I have nothing to do with it, please, with politics. Do not ask me.

Away from politics… Yes, away from politics, go on, Aren’t you from Sharqiya?

The situation exploded in Iraq,

and you spoke a little while ago at the conference about what happened…

Who was it that gave the orders to those people you disavowed today…

the brazen militia,

the brazen militia, or the factions being dissolved?

When I said,“ Dissolve the factions,” this would not have happened like this.