Saudi openness to the Iraqi opposition

News reports in Paris said on Wednesday that the meeting between the Saudi minister of the Interior prince Nayef Bin Abdul Aziz with Sheikh Muhammad Baqer al-Hakim, the leader of the higher council of the Islamic revolution in Iraq, on the framework of his visit to Tehran is considered a great success for the Iraqi Shiite position.

The reports added that this meeting is not far from the American new perspective in dealing with the Iraqi question, noting that it was rumored that a high ranking official at the US embassy in Damascus started contacts with several Shiite opposition in the framework of a plan to open contact channels with the Iraqi opposition organizations outside the national congress.