Iraq’s political crisis could enter a new phase of inter-Shia escalation as rival protests have been called in the capital Baghdad with security forces placed on maximum alert as Iran-backed Shia groups called for a wide demonstration against the sit-in at the Iraqi parliament led by loyalists of powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr. Sadr on Sunday had urged other factions to join his supporters who stormed Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone and took over the parliament building on Saturday in a dispute over which faction should name the next prime minister. The Coordination Framework (CF), …