Iran’s late
Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was not only a prominent figure in Iran
but also an influential political and religious personality in Iraq,
particularly among Iraq’s Shia community, according to Paul Musgrave, an
associate professor at Georgetown University in Qatar.
In an
interview with Al Jazeera, Musgrave said Iraq’s Shia Muslims form the majority
of the population and that Khamenei maintained long-standing religious,
political, and ideological ties with the com...
