We can fil­ter Ammar Al-Hakim’s “sched­uled vis­its” in Lebanon by sim­ply click­ing on the “vis­its” tab on the Supreme Council’s web­site and we are inter­ested only in his meet­ings with Lebanese offi­cials. Ammar Al-Hakim meets:

-) Walid Jum­blatt, Sheikh Akil (Head of the Druz), Has­san Nas­ral­lah (Hezbol­lah Leader), Michel Aoun (Chris­t­ian leader of the Change and Reform), Nabih Berri (Amal Move­ment Leader and Par­lia­ment speaker), Sa’ad Hariri (PM), and some Lebanese journalists.

Notice that Al-Hakim’s meet­ing with the (Iraqi ori­gin — lives in the exile) Aya­tol­lah Moham­mad Hus­sein Fad­lal­lah is not listed above — or bet­ter to say “removed” from the Suprme Council’s web­site, because click­ing on the Google “cached” ver­sion shows that the meet­ing did hap­pened (4th from the top), but click­ing on the head­line leads to nowhere.

Noth­ing unusual in the meet­ing, Ammar Al-Hakim said the Iraqis want a gov­ern­ment that rep­re­sents all the peo­ple, and Fad­lal­lah said that the best way to achieve this goal is the unity between the Iraqi fac­tions. So, what went wrong?

Back in 2008, news­pa­per Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported the fol­low­ing:

Fad­lal­lah to an Iraqi del­e­ga­tion: There is no legit­i­macy to a gov­ern­ment that wants to legit­imize the occupation.

That is Aya­tol­lah Fad­lal­lah Moham­mad Hus­sein Fad­lal­lah com­ment­ing on U.S.-Iraq Agree­ment (SOFA).

Fadlallah’s com­ment enraged the Al-Hakim’s [the father] fol­low­ers, and they “switched on” the Supreme Council’s attack hound — Jalalud­din Al-Saghir — to attack Aya­tol­lah Fad­lal­lah on his web­site, under the title: “Fad­lal­lah, leave the Iraqis with their gov­ern­ment”, here are some excerpts from the arti­cle (and the comments):

We didn’t notice any crit­ics from Fad­lal­lah on the for­mer regime and Arab neigh­bors, who helped the for­mer regime in his tyranny against the Iraqi peo­ple.… What are your efforts to stop the 20 years Lebanese civil war? … Fad­lal­lah affected by the fall of the tyrant Sad­dam, he [Sad­dam] man­aged to buy these people…

Jalalud­din Al-Saghir also is the author of a book called “Al-Hawza con­demns devi­a­tion”, in which he crit­i­cizes Fadlallah’s “mod­er­ate” Shi­ism which shifts away from the Supreme cler­ics in Qom — Iran and Najaf — Iraq (Ara­bic– for those who want the book, leave a valid email in the com­ment sec­tion and I will send you the book).

The removal of Al-Hakim-Fadlallah meet­ing raises few question:

- Are the Supreme Council’s senior-leaders con­trol Ammar Al-Hakim’s move­ments (and the Supreme Coun­cil media — the meet­ing is also removed from the Council’s PR website)?

- Fad­lal­lah — Iran unfriendly rela­tions, is Iran behind this “meeting-removal”?

- Was the meet­ing an embar­rass­ment to the Supreme Coun­cil — Iran relations?

What­ever the answers are, Ammar Al-Hakim’s visit to Lebanon back­fir­ing many prob­lems, start­ing with Muq­tada Al-Sadr and will not end with Jalalud­din Al-Saghir. The above shows a deep split inside the Supreme Coun­cil, there are two streams: 1) Pan-Arab fol­lows Fad­lal­lah 2) Pan-Iran, which is close to the Iran­ian ide­ol­ogy of Wali Al Faqih [Guardian­ship of the Islamic Jurists].