Iraq: Maliki, Sunni Arab leaders and the future of the Oil Ministrynote

Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki is rumored to have agreed to let the ministerial oil portfolio go to the Sunni Arabs to settle the government issue in the country. The following 408-word report sheds light on the subject ans tells what about the preliminary reactions of leading Shiite cleric Ai Sistani, radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr and Oil Minister Hussein Al-Shahristani.