In an interview with Al-Jazeera TV regarding the violent clashes in Basra, Sheikh Kadhim Abdulwahed al-Anizan, head of the Southern Iraqi Tribal Council, said: The only party that benefits these problems is the Iranian regime.

He added: Why the Maliki’s government isn’t fighting against the Iranian Intelligence Ministry (MIOS) that has infiltrated everywhere in Iraq, from Karbala to Najaf and Basra and Dhighar? This is the Iranian MIOS that destroys Iraqi assets and intellectuals and tribal sheikhs