Iranian running information op using bogus Sistani stories

Gateway Pundit:

On Thursday there was a bogus story from Iraq that was published by the Associated Press. The report said the moderate Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, encouraging Iraqis to kill US soldiers.

This was totally out of character for the moderate Shiite cleric who has been very supportive of the democratic process in Iraq since the fall of the Hussein regime.

Sure enough, the Iraqi media later announced that the AP report was not accurate:

"The reports of issuing fatwa by the Shiite cleric Sistani permiting taking up arms to drive foreign troops out of Iraq were baseless."

Iraqi-American Nibras Kazimi suspected that the Iranian PSY-OPS teams were behind the AP's story.

Today the radical Iranian Regime came out with another report against Ayatollah Sistani.
Iran Press TV reported:

Iraq's most revered Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a 'security accord' between the US and Iraq.

The Grand Ayatollah has reiterated that he would not allow Iraq to sign such a deal with "the US occupiers" as long as he was alive, a source close to Ayatollah Sistani said.

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I think Iran has been reduced to running bogus stories because of the failures of their proxies in Iraq. There guys lost in Basra and Sadr City and now Iraqi forces are rounding up their weapons caches and those wanted for crimes which will greatly weaken what is left of the Mahdi militia after too many of them threw themselves in front of US and Iraqi bullets and rockets while failing to stop the barrier that prevents them from their mortar/PR messages into the Green Zone.

When it comes to the US, Iran lies without conscience. That is why, a chat with them without preconditions is useless.