what role will the influential cleric ayatollah ali khamenei ali al—sistani play in all of this? yatollah ali khamenei ali al—sistani certainly appeared to withdraw any support from adil abdul—mahdi's government after the rise of the last few months and the lack of services but let's keep in mind that the biggest difference between the chack logic act in iran and in iraq is thatany between the chack logic act in iran and in iraq is that any run they ta ke and in iraq is that any run they take a much more activist approach —— she cleric. adil abdul—mahdi is not going to say this is the plan you are going to take and this is a man will appoint. —— ayatollah ali khamenei ali al—sistani. he is whole plan is to keep a separation between mosque and state and i would suspect that every week we will have a sermon that every week we will have a sermon and it will try to push iraqi politicians closer to having some sort of reform, some sort of deal but, fundamentally, the system needs to be reformed. what role, if any, iran, the regional power and iraq's neighbour playing? the united states