Therefore "we cannot ... be part of the US action since we do not believe in this action," Hakim said Saturday.
He also said that his group along with the rest of the Iraqi opposition opposed any Turkish intervention in the north of Iraq, saying that this would "make the situation of the Iraqi issue very serious."
Western diplomatic sources in Tehran say that the United States, which sees SAIRI as too close to the Iranian regime for its liking, has told the Shiite opposition that its armed forces were not authorised to enter Iraq after the start of war.