“Is Sistani still alive?”
He sure is, and he is backing the demonstrations going on now in the Shi’ite heartland in the South - essentially a takeover by Sadrists from Iranian surrogates, with a good bit of popular unrest over electrical outages and general poor Government.
Well, then, there’s some cause for hope. Sistani’s more reliable than the boy Imam Mooqy. He has a conscience and a sense of mission, or at least he did back when I kept track of him. Mooqy’s a pure opportunist, who fortunately saw an opportunity to turn on his erstwhile Persian handlers.