Negotiations with Sadr

Al-Jazeera is reporting that the IGC is negotiating with Sadr in an attempt to end the uprising in Iraq. Trying to learn more with Google news leads to this DEBKAfile report that Shi'ite factions within the IGC are leading the negotiations, and are in constant conact with members of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Iranian clerics are also in contact with Sadr trying to persuade him to end the uprising.

UPDATE: I want to clarify in the above that the Iranian clerics involved in negotiations are not the same ones who run the country. In fact, from the DEBKA report:

"US intelligence has evidence that the hands behind the Shiite uprising belong to Iran and the Lebanese Hizballah, operating through the veteran Lebanese arch terrorist Imad Mughniyeh. They advise the 31-year old Shiite rebel to look over his shoulder, because he will then discover that he was tossed onto the Iraqi warfront to fight alone without the promised support structure for himself and his Mehdi Army militia."

I should also mention that this is my first experience with DEBKA, but it looks fairly reliable.

UPDATE: A reader e-mails to suggest that certain people might have a political agenda for laying the blame for the uprising on Iran. This is a valid point, and worth keeping in mind. What should be clear to everyone is that plenty of Iraqis are participating.