Haidar al-Abadi, who is with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawa Party, said Iraqi Shiite lawmakers traveled Friday to Iran to meet with al-Sadr. They returned Sunday, the day al-Sadr told his Mehdi Army fighters to stand down.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/03/31/iraq.main/index.html
Iran will move in to take Iraq when US forces stand down, it is gathering intelligence as we read this.[8D]