Iraq: Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani says electoral reforms only way to resolve the crisis.

Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the highest Shiite religious authority in Iraq, on Friday called on politicians to hurry up in reforming electoral laws and said the changes would be the only way to resolve weeks of deadly unrest.

“We affirm the importance of speeding up the passing of the electoral law and the electoral commission law because this represents the country moving past the big crisis,” his representative said during a sermon in the holy city of Kerbala.