Today news agen­cies cir­cu­lat­ing a report about Sis­tani secretly issued [Jihad against the occu­pa­tion] fatwa, I will show you the events hap­pened timed around this report [which is in my opin­ion is a fake Fatwa and it is denied by Sis­tani].

In a way or another, the report con­nected to Maliki’s claims that Sis­tani sup­ports the mil­i­tary oper­a­tion against armed fac­tions after Maliki’s visit to Sis­tani, a meet­ing accord­ing to Al-Iraq News never happened:

Al-Iraq News obtained con­firmed infor­ma­tion that Sis­tani refused to meet Maliki this morn­ing [yes­ter­day], and he gave the author­ity to his son Moham­mad Sis­tani to meet the Prime Min­is­ter and speak in his name [Sis­tani].

Maliki’s state­ment even chal­lenged by pro-Sadr cler­ics in Kar­bala and Kufa mosques today say­ing: “If the [supreme cler­ics] really sup­port the [mil­i­tary oper­a­tions] as Maliki said, then let them announce it in public”.

The imam in Kufa mosques ques­tioned the cred­i­bil­ity of Maliki’s claims after he met Sis­tani, that [supreme cler­ics] sup­port the mil­i­tary oper­a­tions, in Kar­bala, Al-Sadr rep­re­sen­ta­tive Sheikh Mohamadawi said: “if this is true, then let the [supreme cler­ics] announce it in the Fri­day speech or via their representatives”.

It hap­pened also that Sistani’s neme­sis Al-Hae’ri, who lives in Iran and Muq­tada Al-Sadr’s spir­i­tual leader issued a state­ment [PDF], shows his rejec­tion to the Iraqi — Amer­i­can long pres­ence agree­ment, in a way that he delib­er­ately wanted to embar­rass the supreme cler­ics in Najaf saying:

From my father­hood posi­tion I say: God saves what left of dig­nity, such agree­ment is not bind­ing to any­one, this is a con­spir­acy against our nation, although we are busy with our own tragedies of hunger, dis­place­ment, star­va­tion and depri­va­tion, all this because of the Amer­i­cans …our Hawza [supreme cler­ics] is holier, nobler, and higher than to accept such shame­ful agreement..

Both Maliki and the Sadrists are ply­ing a reli­gious game, the Sadrists with Al-Hae’ri state­ment are pres­sur­ing Sis­tani to reject the Iraqi — Amer­i­can agree­ment, and later leaked this false Fatwa to show Sis­ta­nis dou­ble stan­dards, he sup­ports mil­i­tary oper­a­tions against the Sadrists while he rejects resis­tance oper­a­tion against the occupation.