Jordanian newspaper al-Ghad reported that sources close to Sistani said that the grand cleric’s health is in serious problem, which prevents him from intervene or issued a statement to stop the fights between the militias and the Iraqi forces.
The source also said that Sistani authorized his son “Mohammad Ridha” to manage the “Hawaza” affairs without issuing any Fatwas.
Who follows Sistani?
There are three candidates grand ayatollahs to follow Sistani after his death:
Mohammad Asa’ad al-Fayadh (Afghan)
Bashir al-Najafi (Pakistani)
Mohammad Said Taba’atabi al-Hakim (Iraqi)
If Shiite grand cleric passed away the other four will choose one of the with the best most “knowledge” as the leader of the Shiite, who is in this case is al-Hakim, but with the recent complicated political situation and the Iranian influence, things maybe are decided from the political point of view, in 2003 a failed attempt to assassinate al-Hakim caused the injury of his son.
Hallo, Lady Bird.
Did you read this one
http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=067030120080413181708 ?
Alalam ( an iranian website) reports:
“In an interview with Alalam on Sunday, a Sadr leader, Sheikh Harith al-Dhari dwelt on Sadr Movement Leader Muqtada Sadr’s opposition to the request of the US Defense Secretary Roberts Gates to contribute to Iraq political process and said, “Stances of Sadr Movement are based on the principles and rules set forth by Martyr Mohammad-Baqer Sadr, father of the cleric Muqtada Sadr.” This means any US plans for Muslim states should be rejected, he added.”
Sheikh Harith al-Dhari now is “a sadrist leader” and a spokesperson for Moqtada al-Sadr??????????????? Seems to me very unlikely indeed.
Do you know something about this alleged interview? i can’t understand anything anymore.
Paola:
First: check out the sidebar and see who is prevented from entering Jordan.
Second: I didn’t thank you, interesting it is the same view of the Iraqi resistance I posted yesterday.
Thank you again
Ladybird,
thanks a lot to you. I too posted a few hours ago that Jordan refused entry visa for Salah al-Mukthar:
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=m43030&hd=&size=1&l=e
Yet i cannot understand the news about al-Dhari. Of course, Sheikh Harith al-Dhari is AMSI Secretary General (and not a Sadrist leader, as Alalam writes). But Alalam claims to have interviewed Harith al-Dhari: how is it possibile that Alalam people don’t know who is the guy they are interviewing? And how is possible that al-Dahri really said the things that are attributed to him? According ot Alalam, he spoke as he was Sadr’s spokesperson ! http://www.alalam.ir/english/en-NewsPage.asp?newsid=067030120080413181708
i am very very puzzled. i checked the AMSI website (arabic) and there is nothing about that alleged alalam’s interview. On the contrary, the AMSI posts a quite different interview with al-Dahri, where he is very harsh against Iran: http://www.iraq-amsi.org/news.php?action=view&id=23991&6babf03935c51e345a7f53880bf9e551
(even if al-Dahri doesn’t criticize Sadr at all).
In any case, in my opinion it’s very unlikely that al-Dahri accepted to be interviewed for an iranian website.
Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr was not Muqtada’s father. He was his uncle. The factual error puts the alleged interview in further doubt.
Mystery solved: I found Alalam interview in Arabic:
http://www.alalam.ir/newspage.asp?newsid=053170120080413104530
The guy interviewed (if he does really exist ) is a certain Harith al A’adhari, and not al-Dahri. Alalam claims that this al A’adhari is a leader in the sadrist movement. Then the translator made an “innocent” mistake, and in the english version wrote “Sheikh Harith al-Dhari “.