Iraqi Officials meet with Al-Sadr to end fighting
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) — A group of Iraqi Shiite MPs is in Iran for talks with radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in a bid to end clashes between his fighters and troops that have killed hundreds of people, a Sadr aide said on Thursday.Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, Sadr’s spokesman in the central holy city of Najaf, said the lawmakers, led by deputy parliament speaker Sheikh Khalid al-Attiya, travelled to Iran on Wednesday.
“The members of the parliament led by Sheikh Khalid al-Attiya went to Iran to meet Sadr there and other leaders of the Sadr movement who are in Iran to negotiate with him a way out of the crisis,” Obeidi said.
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