In his meeting with George Bush, US President, Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha, head of the Awakening Councils in Anbar province of Iraq, asked him to prevent the Iranian regime of meddling in Iraq’s internal affairs, Al-Arabiya TV reported.

In an interview with Al-Arabiya Abu Risha said: The US President emphasized the support for Iraq to get out of the present crisis and also for the necessity of clearing the southern Iraq of the Iranian regime’s agents and to end regime’s meddling in Iraq.

Shikh Ahmad Abu Risha, who is now in Washington, underlined the need to end sectarianism and ethnical and religious allocation in Iraq.