IRNA -- Opening three offices in Holy Najaf, Iraq's Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution on Saturday officially started its political activities in this major center of world Shias' academic studies. A source close to the Iraqi political parties, informing the IRNA correspondent in Najaf of the development, said, "The Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution of Iraq (SCIRI) is going to focus on political, cultural, propagational, and humanitarian activities in Holy Najaf." Adding that the SCIRI had already opened its offices in Kout, Jisan, Badre and Nasseriyyeh in southern parts of Iraq, the Iraqi political analyst said, "the general manger of SCIRI's Holy Najaf bureaus is Seyed Sadreddin Qapanchi."
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According to this source, the extent of the people's enthusiasm to join the SCIRI in all different cities where it has opened its offices in Iraq has been beyond imagination and in most cases the SCIRI officials have run short of the application forms for the crowds interested in cooperating with them.
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The first religious meeting sponsored by the SCIRI in Holy Najaf on Friday, to mourn for the Third Infallible Shia Imam Hussain (PBUH), was attended by over 4,000 Najafi citizens. SCIRI Speaker Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Hakim is among the members of the transitional supreme council of Iraqi dissidents, that is commissioned the task of monitoring the tough task of regime change in Iraq, and arranging for the first free elections here. That of course depends on many factors, including when the US occupier forces would give hold of Iraq's affairs to the Iraqi nation, which will be some two years from now according to the latest Pentagon announcements.
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