تاريخ النشر 14/01/20
Talabani met with al-Sadr came out, declining to permit
President of the Republic met with Jalal Talabani, on Friday, the leader of Sadr Muqtada al-Sadr in the holy city of Najaf after meeting a number of prominent religious authority, while the source confirmed that the meeting was brief, and left Talabani, without giving any statement.
The source said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "President Jalal Talabani, met this afternoon, the leader of Sadr Muqtada al-Sadr in his home region Alhananp, the center of Najaf, noting that" the meeting was brief did not last only 17 minutes, while declined Talabani statement to the media after the meeting. "
The source, who asked not to be named, said: "Talabani wrapped up his visit to Najaf to meet him the chest and immediately went to the Najaf International Airport to return to the capital, Baghdad."
And arrived with President Jalal Talabani, this morning, to the city of Najaf, where he met with religious references Ali al-Sistani and Muhammad Ishaq Fayyad and Muhammad Said al-Hakim, Bashir al-Najafi and Mohammed al-Yacoubi, and discussed developments in the political process in the country.
It was Muqtada al-Sadr attended Friday prayers at a mosque in Kufa today, which was imamate Sheikh Zia cord for the first time after his return to the country on the sixth of December current.
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, where he was staying in 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.
And met with Sadr's return is welcomed by 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 of 2003 and the other 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.
Talabani was postponed his visit to the city of Najaf, last Tuesday, due to bad weather in the capital, which transmitted without the boot of his plane at Baghdad International Airport.
The Talabani's visit to Najaf, the third since he assumed the presidency in 2005, and the first of its kind to Iraqi province outside the Kurdistan region of Iraq since his re-election to a second term by the Iraqi parliament in last November, also comes after the return of the leader of the Sadrist movement in Iraq Moqtada al-Sadr in the fifth month of January to Iraq after an absence of more than three years, and the visit of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, to Najaf and his meeting with Shiite cleric Ali al-Sistani in the tenth month of January.
Talabani's visit comes just days after the approval of the Iraqi parliament to the law of the President and his deputies, especially with reference to some sources, Talabani refused to the nomination and former Minister of Education and leader of the Dawa Party-Iraq Organization Khudair Khuzaie for the position of Vice President of the Republic.
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