Sistani's spokesman: 'Religious leaders sense danger in Iraq'
The representative of Iraq's most senior Shia cleric has said religious leaders, "started to sense a real danger which threatens Iraq", following the fall of Mosul and Tikrit to ISIS.
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's representative Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Karbalai was speaking exclusively to BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson.
He said the threat from ISIS was to "Iraqi people and Muslim holy shrines - from all sects".
18 Jun 2014
- From the section Middle East