Mehdi al-Khalasi
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Sheikh Mehdi al-Khalasi (died 1925) was a prominent Shia cleric in Iraq. He was deported by the British because he had told his followers not to collaborate with British plans for the country, thereby contributing to the Iraqi revolt. Initially, they took him to India but, because his presence there aroused sympathy among Indian Muslims, he was then moved to Aden. Eventually he went into exile in Iran, dying in the north-eastern city of Mashad.
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Echoes of occupation of 1920 in latest effort to bring Iraqis to heel by Robert Fisk in the Cape Times, 13 July 2004
