One of Iraq’s most influential Shiite clerics dies at 85

BAGHDAD (AP) — Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim, 1 of Iraq’s astir elder and influential Muslim Shiite clerics, has died, members of his household said. He was 85.  A relative, Mohsen al-Hakim, told The Associated Press that al-Hakim died astatine the Al Hayat infirmary successful the confederate beatified metropolis of Najaf connected Friday wherever helium was taken aft suffering a abrupt bosom attack. His bureau announced that helium died of a abrupt aesculapian information it did not specify.  Al-Hakim holds the highest theological rubric successful Shiite Islam – Ayatollah al-Uzma, which means Grand oregon Supreme Ayatollah. He was seen arsenic the apical contender to win Iraq’s apical Shiite cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.