Today, July 17, Sadr tweeted a response to the leaked audios of the former premier and asked al-Maliki to leave politics. Sadr asked to denounce the leaders allied with al-Maliki and his clan, considering that al-Maliki had no right to lead Iraq in any way.

He also stressed in his response his admiration for "the attempt to kill him by the Dawa Party and their chief al-Maliki." "I advise al-Maliki to abstain and retire from political work," he said, noting that "his accession to power will bring ruin and destruction to Iraq and its people."

The audio leaks attributed to the head of the State of Law coalition, Nuri al-Maliki, have caused an uproar in political and popular circles amid warnings of a high level of provocation between those parties.

The Iraqi activist and journalist Ali Fadel, who resides in the United States, published an audio leak attributed to Al-Maliki, in which he dealt with a number of issues, most notably his relationship with the Sadrists. He also accused the chief of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, Massoud Barzani, of seeking to strike the Shiites, by embracing the displaced Sunnis, as well as their leaders.

The KDP-controlled Erbil is home to thousands of former Sunni political figures, business people, and military and intelligence officers who leave Baghdad. 

Al-Maliki asked: "How many [people] Muqtada al-Sadr killed in Baghdad? How many [Sadr] kidnapped with duck cars?". 

"I wanted to make the PMF like the Iranian Revolutionary Guard," al-Maliki said in the leaded audio records.

Also, in a new clip of what has become known in Iraq as "WikiLeaks al-Maliki," the former prime minister threatened to attack Najaf to "protect the religious authority" if al-Sadr attacked it. He also spoke of a "cruel war from which no one gets out," and he prepared for that by arming 15 groups to confront it.

Iraq has been mired since the end of the last parliamentary elections on October 10, 2021, in a political crisis in which the main political parties were unable to agree on electing a president and forming the next government after each bloc claimed that it had a majority in Parliament, which includes 329 deputies.

Because of this political dispute and the inability of any party to resolve matters despite the strong Shiite leader's leadership, Parliament failed three times to elect a president of the republic, exceeding the deadlines stipulated by the constitution.

Despite the resignation of Sadr deputies, the Shiite leader remains present on the political scene in Iraq through the statements he was publishing on his Twitter account and a recent million-strong gathering in Baghdad.