NAJAF (IRAQ): Iran's Hassan Rouhani met Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in Iraq's Najaf on Wednesday, an AFP photographer reported, in the first come across between an Iranian president and the country's chief Shia cleric.
Sistani famously known as Iraqis to arms against the Islamic State team in 2014, giving upward thrust to the Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance, which incorporates Iran-backed Shiite teams.
Those forces have since been placed below the command of normal Iraqi forces and several other former combatants are now contributors of the Iraqi parliament.
Sistani rejects international influence in Iraq.
Iran and Iraq fought a devastating eight-year conflict in the 1980s however their members of the family shifted vastly with the American-led overthrow of Sunni Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Iran, which like its neighbour has a principally Shia population, is now one in all oil-rich Iraq's major buying and selling partners and has close ties to a lot of its political actors.
Shia-majority Iraq is strolling a advantageous line to handle good members of the family with Iran and its other key best friend, the United States, an arch-foe of Iran.
Both have played a significant function in the battle against IS jihadists.
Sistani, a non secular leader to maximum of Iraq's Shias and a few in Iran, heads the non secular status quo of Najaf, a Shia holy city in Iraq that rivals Iran's Qom.
In 2013, the octogenarian leader refused to satisfy then-president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Rouhani, who's on his first commute to Iraq since changing into president in 2013, hailed his nation's "special" ties with its neighbour, saying they might no longer be ready to members of the family "with an aggressor country like America".
Sistani famously known as Iraqis to arms against the Islamic State team in 2014, giving upward thrust to the Hashd al-Shaabi paramilitary alliance, which incorporates Iran-backed Shiite teams.
Those forces have since been placed below the command of normal Iraqi forces and several other former combatants are now contributors of the Iraqi parliament.
Sistani rejects international influence in Iraq.
Iran and Iraq fought a devastating eight-year conflict in the 1980s however their members of the family shifted vastly with the American-led overthrow of Sunni Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Iran, which like its neighbour has a principally Shia population, is now one in all oil-rich Iraq's major buying and selling partners and has close ties to a lot of its political actors.
Shia-majority Iraq is strolling a advantageous line to handle good members of the family with Iran and its other key best friend, the United States, an arch-foe of Iran.
Both have played a significant function in the battle against IS jihadists.
Sistani, a non secular leader to maximum of Iraq's Shias and a few in Iran, heads the non secular status quo of Najaf, a Shia holy city in Iraq that rivals Iran's Qom.
In 2013, the octogenarian leader refused to satisfy then-president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Rouhani, who's on his first commute to Iraq since changing into president in 2013, hailed his nation's "special" ties with its neighbour, saying they might no longer be ready to members of the family "with an aggressor country like America".
Iran's Rouhani meets Iraq's top Shia cleric
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