In an interview with Al-Sharq al-Awsat, Sheikh Jassim al-Kadhim, head of the Independent Association of the Nationalist and Democratic Tribes said: the insertion of the PMOI in the terror list has hampered the balance in the region, because this organization is a balancing weight vis-à-vis the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraq and the countries in the region.

Explaining the statement by 300,000 Shiites in southern Iraq against Iran’s meddling, he said: “We ask all Iraqi tribes to stand before the meddling of the Iranian regime and its creeping occupation. ”