The Supreme Religious Authority: Maintaining the peaceful nature of the protests in all its forms is of great importance.

The representative of the supreme religious authority; Sheikh Abd al-Mahdi al-Karbala’i read during the sermon of the Friday prayer of the 11th Rabi' Awwal 1441 AH, corresponding to November 8, 2019, held at the holy shrine of Imam al-Hussayn (peace be upon him) the text received from the office of the supreme religious authority in Najaf; his eminence Sayed al-Sistani in Najaf, in which he stated:

“Maintaining the peaceful nature of the protests in all its forms is of great importance and the major responsibility in this is on the security forces that should avoid the use of violence, especially excessive violence in dealing with peaceful protesters, it is unwarranted and leads to serious consequences.”