The council that will write the constitution should be elec… - Ali Sistani

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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.

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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (born 1930 in Iran) is an Islamic cleric and the spiritual leader of Iraq's 24 million Shiite Muslims. Sistani has abstained from personally delivering public addresses and shunned media contacts. As a result, quotations pertaining to him are from secondary sources which were made available through interlocutors, aides, and so forth.

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Native Name: سيد على سيستانى

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