SHAFAQNA- A ceremony to commemorate Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi was held in Najaf.
A group of great Shia maraja of Iraq, religious and political figures such as Sheikh Ish’aq Fayyaz, Ayatollah Yaghoubi, Grand Ayatollahs Sistani, Seyyed Said Hakim and Sheikh Bashir Najafi, a large number of scholars and theologians of Najaf Seminary attended this ceremony which was held by the Representative of the Iran Supreme Leader to Iraq Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini.
Bahrain’s leading Shia cleric, Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim who has recently gone to Najaf, a delegation of members of the Iranian parliament, the Head of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Seyyed Ammar al-Hakim and general-secretary of al-Nojaba Movement Sheikh Qais Al-Khazali, were also present at this ceremony.
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