I'M MORE PUZZLED THAN USUAL

I had the impression that Al-Sadr was supported by Iran:

Sources: Iran helped prod al-Sadr cease-fire
From Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jonathan Wald
CNN
updated 4:22 p.m. EDT, Mon March 31, 2008

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iran was integral in persuading Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to halt attacks by his militia on Iraqi security forces, an Iraqi lawmaker said Monday.

Haidar al-Abadi, a member of 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.

Al-Sadr and some Shiite parties have close ties to Iran, a Shiite-dominated country.

But today, I read something that contradicts this:

"It should not be forgotten that the Sadrists are Tehran's historical main enemy among the Shiites of Iraq," noted Reidar Visser, an Oxford-educated expert on Iraqi Shiites.