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\"Today, Iraqi politicians make efforts to resolve the differences among certain foreign powers and neighbouring countries of Iraq, because the goal is in line with national interests and will help establish security in the country.\" \"Certain countries or foreign forces may have views about changing the infrastructures and political system in Iraq, but they should know that we will stand up to their desires,\" the son of Abd al-Aziz al-[Mohsen Hakim], head of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution of Iraq added in conclusion.

LEADING Shiite politician Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, a pivotal force in post-war Iraq, was assassinated last night in a car bomb blast that killed at least 82 people and wounded around 200 in the holy city of Najaf. Hakim, who spent 20 years in exile in Iran before returning in triumph to Iraq in May, \"met a martyr's fate along with his bodyguards,\" Mohsen Hakim, son of the ayatollah's brother, Abdel Aziz, said in Tehran.

Iraq's best-known Shi'ite Muslim politician, Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer al-Hakim, head of the Iran-backed Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was killed in the blast. Hakim, who spent 20 years in exile in Iran before returning in triumph to Iraq earlier this year, \"met a martyr's fate along with his bodyguards\", Mohsen Hakim, political adviser to the ayatollah's brother Abdel Aziz, said in tears. Minutes before the blast, worshippers were listening to the weekly prayer sermon delivered by al-Hakim in which he had denounced Saddam and the Baath party.

[Mohsen Hakim] is an adviser to Abd al-Aziz Hakim, his father and leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, one of Iraq's most influential Shia parties. He believes conditions in Iraq can be improved with the participation of all regional and international powers, including the US and Iran. Sciri was formed in Tehran in 1982 - Mohsen Hakim has spent more of his 34 years in Iran than in Iraq - and the Badr corps, its military wing, was trained by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Yet Sciri gave conditional support to the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 before becoming a crucial component of the new Baghdad government.

Tehran, 24 February: Ammar al-[Mohsen Al-Hakim], son of Abd-al-Aziz al-Hakim who heads the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), on Saturday [24 February] said US allegations of Iranian interference in Iraqi internal affairs were \"unfounded and mere propaganda.\"

He said the attack was the work of the same group that bombed the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad on August 19, killing 23 people. But he gave no evidence. Al-Hakim was the top spiritual leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, and had divided his time since the end of the war between the Iranian capital Tehran and Najaf, the holiest shi'ite Muslim city in Iraq. Younger shi'ites have conducted an ongoing power struggle with the more traditional shi'ite Muslim's in the Najaf and its surrounding region, conducting a political battle to grab control from the al- Hakim family. Mohsen Hakim, a nephew of the murdered ayatollah and a spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, also blamed [Saddam Hussein] loyalists and he called on Iraq's occupiers to identify the murderers.

Also today, attackers fired rocket-propelled grenades at two U.S. convoys in separate ambushes, killing one American soldier and wounding six, the U.S. military said. Ayatollah al-Hakim was the spiritual leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and had divided his time since the end of the war between Tehran and Najaf, the holiest Shiite Muslim city in Iraq. Mohsen Hakim, another of the cleric's nephews and a spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, said in Tehran that [Saddam Hussein] loyalists were the prime suspects behind the killing, and he called on U.S. occupation forces to identify the murderers.

The Najaf explosion killed Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). The car bomb was outside the Mosque of Iman Ali, the most sacred of all shrines in the Shi'ite religion. It followed a bomb blast on Sunday at the office of Ayatollah Mohammed Said al-[Mohsen Hakim], the uncle of Bakr al-Hakim. He escaped, but three of his guards were killed in the attack. The soldier's death raises the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq to 282, of whom 67 have died in fighting since 1 May, when President Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq.

Ayatollah al-Hakim was the spiritual leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and had divided his time since the end of the war between Tehran and Najaf, the holiest Shiite Muslim city in Iraq. Mohsen Hakim, another of the cleric's nephews and a spokesman for the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution of Iraq, said in Tehran that [Saddam Hussein] loyalists were the prime suspects behind the killing, and he called on U.S. occupation forces to identify the murderers. Photo: The Associated Press / Iraqis survey the destruction after a car bomb exploded next to the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq killing at least 75 and wounding 140 others, Friday.; Photo: Mohammed Bakir al-Hakim