In Iraq, the Sadrist movement led by Muqtada Al-Sadr has long followed the religious edicts of cleric Kazem Al-Haeri, doing so upon the instructions of the leader’s late father, Mohammed Sadiq Al-Sadr, who before his death told his loyalists to follow Al-Haeri or another cleric named Mohammed Al-Fayadh. Al-Haeri was the first cleric to designate Muqtada Al-Sadr as a Hujjat
Investigations are continuing into Hadi Matar, the 24-year-old American of Lebanese origin accused of repeatedly stabbing the novelist Salman Rushdie in an attack at a New York literary event. With reports suggesting Matar was motivated by a fatwa issued by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 calling for the author’s death, the attack brings to the fore important