Iraq: Maliki, Shahristani and the KRG oil contracts - Update 1note

Iraqi PM Nouri Al-Maliki is said to be on the verge of a government crisis because of the agreement he concluded with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on the KRG oil contracts. The following 426-word report sheds on the subject and tells what about the reaction of Iraqi leading Shiite cleric Ali Sistani and that of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr.