Ali al-Sistani — supplementary: 2003 Bremer-exchange + elected-constitutional-council doctrine

From Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (b. 1930, Iranian-born Iraqi Shia marja al-taqlid based in Najaf; one of the four Maraji al-Taqlid (Sources of Emulation) for global Shia Islam; the dominant Shia religious authority in post-2003 Iraq; gave the foundational 2003 fatwas mandating Iraqi elections and rejecting US-imposed constitutional drafting; gave the 13 June 2014 fatwa mandating Iraqi-Shia armed resistance to ISIS that produced the Popular Mobilization Forces (Hashd al-Shaabi)):

2003 (Sistani to CPA Administrator Paul Bremer III, declining direct meeting and communicating through aides; this exchange is one of the most documented examples of Sistani's refusal to participate in US-led constitutional drafting):
'Mr. Bremer, you are an American and I am an Iranian. I suggest we leave it up to the Iraqis to devise their constitution.'

29 November 2003 (Sistani's foundational 2003 fatwa on the Transitional Administrative Law / constitutional drafting process):
'The council that will write the constitution should be elected, not hand-picked... The constitution will be illegal if it is written by a council, whether that is chosen by the Americans or by what is called the Governing Council or by anyone else.'

On Israeli goods (Sistani religious-ruling, on consumer behavior of Muslims):
'It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.'

On personal asceticism (Sistani famously lives in extreme austerity in Najaf):
'People are not finding potable water and you're bringing me juice? No.'