Iran Press/ Middle East: Iraq's top Shia religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said that he has welcomed the proposals announced by the UN in a bid to end the unrest, according to a statement from his office after meeting in the Shia holy city of Najaf with Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.
But he said that he was concerned that political parties 'do not have sufficient seriousness to implement any true reform'. "If they do not," he said, a "new approach was needed."
"The situation cannot continue in the same way it has before the protests," said Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani, without elaborating.
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