Sheikh Zakzaky to attend Islamic Awakening Conference in Tehran

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Leader of the Shiite Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky will attend the Islamic Awakening Supreme Council meeting which will kick up on March 10, 2014 in Tehran, under the chairmanship of former Iraqi prime minister, Ibrahim al-Jafari.The Head of Strategic Research Center of Iran’s Expediency Council, Ali Akbar Velayati,  announced last week  that  the meeting of Supreme Council of the Islamic Awakening will be held in the Iranian capital on March 10.He said Ibrahim al-Jafari will lead the council meeting. Jafari is an Iraqi politician who was prime minister of Iraq in the Iraqi Transitional Government from 2005 to 2006, following the January 2005 election. Velayati further announced that an international conference, too, is scheduled to be held in Tehran on March 11-12, on the role of the Islamic World in the structure of global power.Delegates from different part of the world are also attending the Tehran conference./129