Senior Iraqi mufti praises Hezbollah’s anti-terror drive

Rasa – A senior Iraqi Sunni cleric, Shaykh Khalid al-Mulla, said that the Lebanese Islamic Resistance Movement of Hezbollah is targeted because it stands against ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria and against Israeli occupation.

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Date: 14 March 2016 - 18:00

RNA – Speaking at a congregation to voice support to Hezbollah on Sunday, the leader of Iraq’s Sunni Scholars Association said that the Islamic Resistance movement’s leader Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah is opposing sectarian and divisive plots.

The mufti also cautioned Iraqi statesmen and politicians against efforts to take over the country’s political system and to return a dictatorial regime to Baghdad with the help of US and its protégé governments in the Persian Gulf region.

Shaykh al-Mulla’s comments were made amid public anger in Iraq in recent days after foreign ministers of reactionary Arab countries included Hezbollah in their so-called list of terrorist organizations.

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