Iran Majlis to probe Moussa Sadr’s fate

Iranian Majlis (parliament) is sending a team to Libya to investigate the fate of Lebanon’s cleric Imam Moussa al-Sadr who disappeared in Libya 33 years ago.

Javad Karimi Qoddousi, chairman of the committee investigating the situation of Sadr, says Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee is sending an investigation team to Libya.

“We need to contact Libyan revolutionaries who have been witness to martyrdom or presence of Imam Moussa Sadr in Libya,” he told Majlis official news agency, ICANA, on Thursday.

Qoddousi added that following the ‘fall’ of the Libyan fugitive ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Majlis is stepping up diplomatic efforts to clarify the fate of Imam Moussa.

“The investigation will be carried out in cooperation with the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, both of which are important in determining the situation of Imam Moussa Sadr,” he went on to say.

Sadr, the founder of Lebanon’s Amal movement, was a greatly popular and highly venerated Lebanese cleric of an Iranian descent, who disappeared on Aug. 31, 1978 in a visit to Libya.

It is widely believed in Lebanon that the cleric was kidnapped on the orders of senior Libyan officials.

Accompanied by two of his companions, Mohammed Yaqoub and Abbas Badreddin, Sadr was scheduled to meet with officials from the government of Gaddafi.

In 2008, Beirut issued an arrest warrant for Gaddafi over Sadr’s disappearance.