Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the Premiershipnote

Radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr is said to have received an invitation from the Saudi Foreign Ministry to visit Riyadh. The following 357-word report sheds light on the subject and tells what the invitation is for. It also tells what about Al-Sadr’s position with regard to Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahristani’s interference with the appeal for a recount of votes in five provinces in which Al-Sadr won last month’s elections.