Iran says the recent visit by Pope Francis to Iraq, where he met withGrand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, shows security has returned to the Arab country, thanks to "the bravery of the Iraqi people and the wisdom of its religious leadership". The message that is conveyed by this trip and similar trips is that Iraq is secure and that calm has returned"to ...

IRNA - Iraqi Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani expressed his condolences over the deadly earthquake in Iran, calling his followers to allocate parts of religious donations regularly paid to help victims of the Sunday night earthquake in western Iran. Shia Muslims regularly pay Khums, a type of tax in the Islamic tradition which is collected by religious ...

IFP- Iraqs top Shia cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has advised the countrys security forces against mistreating the ISIS terrorists held as prisoners. Ayatollah Sistani has dismissed the concept of exacting revenge on ISIS terrorists taken captive, according to a Farsi report by SNN. The senior cleric said the terrorists and their accomplices ...

IFP- In a recent report, the famous French newspaper Le Monde described Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the grand religious leader of Iraqi Shias, as the most influential figure in this country:a man whose absence will leave a large void in Iraq. Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani receives his visitors at his place; on a modest bench in an almost empty room of ...

Iraq's top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has praised efforts by Bahrain's prominent Shia scholarSheikh Isa Qassimin defending peoples rights through peaceful means. In a telephone conversation on Thursday, Ayatollah Sistani expressed solidarity with Sheikh Qassim, whose citizenship was revoked by the Manama regime this week. You are ...

Baghdad, June 18, IRNA Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani in a statement released on Friday urged Iraqi nation to preserve their national unity and solidarity and avoid religious and secterian discrimination. In a statement read by Karbala Friday Prayer Leader Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalai during the sermon, the Grand Ayatollah called on the Iraqi government ...

Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric urged government forces battling to retake Falluja from Islamic State militants to spare civilians trapped in the city on Baghdad's western approaches. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's appeal reflected concerns that a large civilian death toll in the battle for the mainly Sunni Muslim city could aggravate sectarian ...

Tehran, Jan 3, IRNA - Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Sunday strongly condemned the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqr al-Nimr. Ayatollah al-Sistani said the pure blood of martyr Sheikh Nimr and his Muslim brothers were spilled cruelly and unjustly. He also extended his condolences on the sad ...

Tehran, Dec 11, IRNA Iraq's top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, called on the government on Friday to show 'no tolerance' of any infringement of the country's sovereignty, after Turkey deployed heavily armed troops to northern Iraq. Ayatollah Sistani's Spokesman, Sheikh Abdul Mehdi Karbala'i, did not explicitly name Turkey, but a row over ...

Baghdad, July 28, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrapped up his three-nation tour that took him to Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq on Tuesday morning. Zarif arrived in the Holy City of Najaf on Sunday evening. The Iranian foreign minister left Najaf for Karbala and then returned to Najaf on Monday for pilgrimage and paying tribute to First ...