Iraqi Shia leader Sistani issues a religious decree: Collective holy war to defend the Iranian Islamic Revolution
According to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, one of the highest Shia religious authorities in Iraq, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, emphasized in response to religious inquiries from his followers that conducting a collective holy war to defend the Iranian Islamic Revolution is a religious obligation.
The decree requires all Shias to join the holy war against the United States and Israel.
Sistani is the most influential Shia religious leader in the world, and 200 million to 500 million Shia believers worldwide follow his rulings.
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