21 January 2011 - 20:30

Aides to Iraqi Shi’ite cleric anti-American Moqtada al-Sadr said he returned to Iran on Friday after spending two weeks in Iraq long after he had spent in Iran.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Aides to Iraqi Shi’ite cleric anti-American Moqtada al-Sadr said he returned to Iran on Friday after spending two weeks in Iraq long after he had spent in Iran.

A source from inside his office, asking not to be named, “Yes, Mr. Muqtada al-Sadr returned to Iran.

Was not immediately clear whether al-Sadr had returned to Iran temporarily or that he intended to stay for a period of perhaps for the resumption of religious studies in Qom in Iran.

Al-Sadr returned to Iraq on the fifth of January after more than three years of fleeing the country in the face of an arrest warrant against him is part of the Americans.

Sadr demanded that the government in his first public speech after his return from Iran to respect a pledge not to allow U.S. troops to stay.

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