Iran MPs to visit Libya in Sadr case

An Iranian lawmaker says Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) will soon send a team to Libya to probe the situation of Influential Lebanese cleric Imam Moussa Sadr.

Javad Karimi Qoddousi, who heads a subcommittee set up by the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee to investigate Sadr’s fate, said lawmakers had proposed October 16 and 26 to the Foreign Ministry as possible dates for the trip.

The lawmaker said the subcommittee has collected a lot of information, but “should wait until all aspects of the issue are made clear.”

“Based on the latest information, Imam Moussa had been kept at a [military] base in Sirte since many years ago. After Libyan revolutionaries capture Sirte, we will find out … [more] information about Imam Moussa Sadr,” he noted.

Qoddousi had announced on August 25 that Iran’s Majlis has stepped up diplomatic efforts to clarify the fate of Imam Moussa after the fall of the fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi,

Sadr, the founder of Lebanon’s Amal Movement, was a popular and highly revered Lebanese Influential cleric of Iranian descent, who disappeared on August 31, 1978 while visiting Libya.

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

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