Who Speaks for Iraqi Shiites? Not Iran's Ayatollahs (The Weekly Standard)
December 3, 2007 - Institute for the Study of War![](https://understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumb-wide/public/iraniraq_0.jpg?itok=gl15alzQ)
The reemergence of Iraq's Shiite leadership comes as the Iranian regime now stands only on the religious claims of authority made by Ali Khamenei.