Abd al-Rahim al-Hasini
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Abd al-Rahim Ahmad Ali al-Hasini is an Iraq
i politician and secretary-general of the Shi'ite Islamist Islamic Virtue Party
, which is based in Basra
.
He succeeded Nadim al-Jabiri
in May 2006, and told Al-Hayat newspaper that the party planned to protect the youth by erecting barricades against "civilisational assaults". He said civil war was unlikely in Iraq, and differences could be overcome.
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i politician and secretary-general of the Shi'ite Islamist Islamic Virtue Party
Islamic Virtue Party
Islamic Virtue Party is an Iraqi political party. It follows ayatollah Muhammad Ya`qubi a student of Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr and thus represent a branch of the Sadrist Movement, however the party is not affiliated with Muqtada al-Sadr and is in fact a rival to his branch of the Sadrists...
, which is based in Basra
Basra
Basra is the capital of Basra Governorate, in southern Iraq near Kuwait and Iran. It had an estimated population of two million as of 2009...
.
He succeeded Nadim al-Jabiri
Nadim al-Jabiri
Nadim al-Jabiri is an Iraqi politician and the former secretary-general of the Islamic Virtue Party, which at the time was a component of the United Iraqi Alliance until it left in March 2007...
in May 2006, and told Al-Hayat newspaper that the party planned to protect the youth by erecting barricades against "civilisational assaults". He said civil war was unlikely in Iraq, and differences could be overcome.