{"id":9273,"date":"2014-06-11T20:14:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=9273"},"modified":"2014-06-11T20:14:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T20:14:25","slug":"grand-ayatollah-sayyid-ali-sistani-urges-support-for-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/grand-ayatollah-sayyid-ali-sistani-urges-support-for-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani urges support for army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Iraq-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has voiced his support for the Iraqi army engaged in fighting against the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani released a statement on Tuesday, condemning the capture of Nineveh province by the Takfiri militants. \u00a0The senior Shia cleric called for unity among all of the country\u2019s political factions against the militants.<\/p>\n<p>After taking the provincial capital of Mosul and parts of Kirkuk, the al-Qaeda-linked militants captured two areas of Iraq&#8217;s Salaheddin province Siniyah and Sulaiman Bek, located north of the capital Baghdad, fell into the hand of the militants, said an army brigadier general and a local official.<\/p>\n<p>Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has called on the parliament to declare a state of emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Violence also raged elsewhere in the country with bombings and shootings across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.presstv.ir\/iphone\/detail.aspx?id=366421\">Press TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq-based Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has voiced his support for the Iraqi army engaged in fighting against the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani released a statement on Tuesday, condemning the capture of Nineveh province by the Takfiri militants. \u00a0The senior Shia cleric called for unity among all &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[187,78,786,534,676,905,914,233,915,916,163],"class_list":["post-9273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-islamic-research","tag-army","tag-ayatollah","tag-grand-ayatollah","tag-iraqi","tag-isil","tag-isis","tag-sayyyid-sistani","tag-sistani","tag-statement","tag-support","tag-ticker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9276,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9273\/revisions\/9276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}