By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
An influential Iraqi cleric living in Iran has issued a fatwa - or a religious decree - against a US-Iraqi security pact that would keep American troops in Iraq for three more years.
The Iranian-born Ayatollah Kazim al-Hosseini al-Haeri called the proposed agreement "haram" - which in Arabic means "forbidden" by Islam - and said it's "a sin God won't forgive."
Al-Haeri, based in the Iranian holy city of Qom, is believed to be a mentor of anti-US Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr whose followers oppose the deal.
The fatwa was posted on al-Haeri's web site Wednesday. The cleric said the US was pressuring the Iraqi government to approve the deal that brings "humiliation and scarifies Iraq's national sovereignty."
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