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News Alert:The following is a transcript from Iranian Broadcasting (IRIB) http://www.irib.com/Htmls/EN/eframe.htm in which Ayatollah Baqr Hakim, leader of the Islamist Shi'a Resistance force SCIRI denies any aggreement with the US and states the US should not interfere in Iraqi affairs.TRANSCRIPT: Announcer: Muhammad Baqir Hakim, chairman of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Has said that the council had never declared readiness to cooperate with the United States and Great Britian for the ouster of Saddam Hussein from power. Hakim who was speaking in an interview with Qatar Television reporters in Tehran. Said, "every political change in Iraq would have to be instituted by the people of Iraq and nobody else." downloaded from http://shialink.org/link/links/news&media.html (12/25/98)IRIB News 23:00 Tehran Time Dec. 25, 1998 http://www.irna.com/tv/radiotv/23.ram Ayatollah Baqir Hakim is an marja al-taqlid in Shi'a jurisprudence which gives him more power in terms of influence over other Shi'a. This position probably reflects official Iranian positions which is solidly against the bombing of Iraq and US intervention in the Middle East. Campaign '99: Democracy, Ending Sanctions and Foreign Intervention Read her story and others in our media sectionDenial of Rights by the Ba'ath and the U.S. Government Coming soon exposes on Shi'a rights in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Bahrain and Iran
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