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Al-Sayyid Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani , commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani in the Western world, is an Iranian Shia marja in Iraq and the head of many of the hawzahs in Najaf.He is described as the spiritual leader of Iraqi Shia Muslims and one of the most senior clerics in Shia Islam.

✵ 4. August 1930
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“People are not finding potable water and you're bringing me juice? No.”

Ali Sistani

What Sistani Wants http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6920460/site/newsweek/page/3/ February 2006. <br class="br">Asceticism

“The council that will write the constitution should be elected, not hand-picked … The constitution will be illegal if it is written by a council, whether that is chosen by the Americans or by what is called the Governing Council or by anyone else.”

Ali Sistani

New Iraqi constitution

“Sistani's office refuses the replacement of the law [which excludes former Baath Party members from returning to public life] because it is not an Iraqi demand but it is a political demand to please some sides.”

Ali Sistani

Top Iraqi Shi&#x27;ite cleric rejects Baathist law, 2 April 2007 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL0229955320070402?pageNumber=1, <br class="br">Former Baathists

“It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.”

Ali Sistani

Ayatullah as-Sayyid Ali as-Seestani (Iraq) http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-fatwas.html#imam. <br class="br">Fatwa against Israeli goods

“Mr. Bremer, you are an American and I am an Iranian. I suggest we leave it up to the Iraqis to devise their constitution.”

Ali Sistani

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/nov/16/opinion/oe-cockburn16.
New Iraqi constitution

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