January 12, 2011Muqtada al-Sadr meets Sistani's office in Najaf
Alsumaria News / Najaf
A source in the office of the religious authority, Ali al-Sistani, on Wednesday, that the leader of the Sadrist movement met with Sistani's Najaf headquarters, and held a meeting with him in the first visit after returning to Iraq.
The source said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "cleric Moqtada al-Sadr visited the evening of the day, the religious authority, Ali al-Sistani in his office in the old city in Najaf," noting that "al-Sadr and Sistani held a meeting to discuss the latest what the situation in the country. "
The source, who requested anonymity, that "al-Sadr's visit is the first reference to al-Sistani after his return to the country."
He returned Moqtada al-Sadr to Iraq and the holy city of Najaf last Wednesday, after an absence of more than three and a half years, he lived during the Iranian city of Qom, and stresses his supporters that he was studying theology in Qom scientific, while Some observers point out that leaving Iraq was part of a deal between him and the government of Nouri al-Maliki, who was seeking to weaken the militant wing of the mainstream, and it fits within the peaceful political process.
The return of al-Sadr has received a welcome from the Iraqi political forces, as considered by the Interior Ministry of the tongue and the agent, Adnan al-Asadi, the return of al-Sadr will contingent on security in Iraq, in a position different to what was leaked on the arrest warrants issued by the ministry against him under judicial decisions accused of the assassination of Shiite cleric Abdul Majid al-Khoei in April 2003 and again due to the activities of the Mehdi Army earlier attributed to him thousands of murders committed against civilians in areas of Baghdad and central and southern governorates during the years of sectarian fighting which lasted from 2005 until 2008.
As the first adverse reaction to Sadr's return to Iraq threatened to family-Khoei in the words of his son, Haider al-Khoei, who lives in London, via a press statement to him, last Thursday, to "activate the issue of assassination reference Khoei internationally," If you do not take the Iraqi judiciary legal action against Moqtada al-Sadr, who is considered "The defendant killed the first reference Abdul Majid al-Khoei.
The Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Iraqi List, Saleh Mutlaq, said that "some of the previous sentences issued against Muqtada al-Sadr was incorrect," saying it was based on the objectives and political objectives.
And some reports claim that Sadr had been living in a "house arrest" in the Sign imposed upon the Iranian authorities, at the request of Iraq, and was the last public appearance was in Iraq during a speech Friday in early June 2007.
Relations between the Islamic Dawa Party and the Sadr movement passed through several stages of attraction and tension after the pressure of the Sadrist movement to the rest of the National Coalition, a private Islamic Supreme Council to accept the candidate advocacy alternative Nuri al-Maliki as prime minister in 2006, and on this basis was the formation of the Iraqi government by Maliki and continued relations between the parties in good health until the last entry to Karbala in 2007 to stop the armed clashes that took place between supporters of the Sadrist movement and their holy shrines in the city and that led to the killing and arrest of several elements of the current.
At the end of March 2008 With the start of Operation Charge of the Knights against the Mahdi Army militia in Basra and the rest of the provinces became the Maliki, the new enemy of the stream after the former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, which strained relations between the parties and continued after the parliamentary elections held in March of this year, but the change the position of the Sadrist movement from Maliki's nomination for prime minister, which is considered by some observers that he came under pressure re-Iranian relations between advocacy and the power to normal after three years of tension between the parties.
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