Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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 Posted: Sat May 12, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: Iraqi Shia's tell Iran to get lost |
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Iraq' biggest political party is throwing its hat in with the US and not Iran.
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By Mariam Karouny
BAGHDAD, May 11 (Reuters) - Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite party will make key changes to its platform, party officials said on Friday, in a move that will increasingly align it with Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.
The changes could distance the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) from neighbouring Shi'ite Iran, where the party was formed in the 1980s to oppose the late President Saddam Hussein.
Under the new platform, the party would get its guidance from the Shi'ite religious establishment as before, but more from Sistani, SCIRI officials said.
That would mark a shift from SCIRI's current platform, which says the group gets its guidance from the religious establishment of Welayat al Faqih, led by the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran. |
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/YAT153309.htm |
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