Iranian minister meets Iraq's top shiite cleric
Iran’s foreign minister and Iraq’s top Shiite Muslim cleric have met in the Iraqi city of Najaf amid worsening sectarian tensions fuelled by a three-week surge of violence that has killed hundreds.
Kamal Kharrazi, the highest-level official from any of Iraq’s six neighbours to visit since Saddam Hussein’s ousting two years ago, met for about 30 minutes with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf – a holy Shiite city, 100 miles south of Baghdad.
