Iranian MPs urge foreign minister, UN, OIC to clarify Imam Mousa Sadr fate
24 February, 2011 11:55
Some 23 Iranian MPs called on the Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to pursue the fate of Imam Mousa Sadr, given the new situation facing Libya.They urged the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference to form fact-finding committees to help clarify whereabouts of Imam Mousa Sadr.
The MPs included Mohammad Hassan Torabifard, Heshmatollah Falahat-Pisheh, Hossein Sobhani-Nia, Esmaeil Kosari, Jalal Yahyazadeh, Mohammad Reza Tabesh, Omidvar Rezaei, Elyas Naderan and Reza Akrami.
In August 1978, al-Sadr and two companions Sheikh Muhammad Yaacoub and journalist Abbas Badreddine departed for Libya to meet with government officials.
The three were never heard from again. It is widely believed that the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi ordered Sadr’s killing.
Libya has consistently denied responsibility, claiming that Sadr and his companions left Libya for Italy.
Sadr was an Iranian-born Lebanese philosopher and Shia religious leader who disappeared in August 1978.
He was born in Qom, Iran, in 1928 to the prominent Lebanese Sadr family of theologians.
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