Word: sciri
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...before al-Khoei's, and whose family had suffered bitterly at the hands of Saddam's regime. Hakim, who as a Grand Ayatollah has a higher theological standing than al-Khoei, is better known to outsiders as the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), the Tehran-based exile organization estimated before the war to be the most influential body among Iraq's Shiites. Washington had, in fact, drawn SCIRI into a tentative coalition of six exile groups ahead of "Operation Iraqi Freedom." But the Pentagon had, at the same time, warned al-Hakim...
...Still, responses among Shiite leaders to "Operation Iraqi Freedom" have been decidedly ambiguous. While al-Khoei maintained ties with the U.S. military, al-Hakim's organization urged its supporters to remain passive. Saddam was the greater evil, they said, and Shiites should not fight to defend the regime. But SCIRI's supporters did not launch an uprising in support of the invasion, probably because of the bitter experience of 1991 when the Shiites were betrayed by the U.S. - the mass influx of SCIRI fighters from Iran during the 1991 uprising had been one reason the first Bush administration refrained from...
Tehran did allow representatives of the Shi'a Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (sciri), the Iraqi opposition group it hosts, to meet with U.S. officials in Washington last week, talks that would not have taken place without the agreement of Iran's security establishment. Iraq has responded to the potential threat by seeking improved ties with Iran. According to a report published on a website linked to the Islamic Iran Participation Front, Iran's leading reformist party, Saddam's son Qusai Hussein recently met with a deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The Foreign Ministry denied...