"... Now the attempt the put al-Najati into political exile could draw in Iraq's influential Shiite religious leaders and the political groups that dominate government. Al-Najati is the Bahrain representative for Iraq's Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the country's most influential Shiite political cleric.
Pulling the citizenship could set the stage for the eventual expulsion of al-Najati and his family, but its immediate effect appears to be as a warning message to other Shiite clerics seeking to speak out against the state. There was no immediate comment from al-Najati or al-Sistani's office in Iraq...."
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