Muqtada al-Sadr, a firebrand Shia Iraqi cleric and head of the Sadrist Movement on Tuesday harshly criticized Barham Salih, the president of Iraq, for withholding signing on a law criminalising any form of normalisation with Israel, a move seen as fatal for the overdue president to be elected for a second term. The Iraqi parliament on 26 May unanimouslypassed a law criminalising any form of normalisation with Israel. The law, which stipulates execution or life imprisonment for calling for normalisation, aims to stamp out any effort in the future for Iraq and the Iraqi Kurdistan region to forma…