An Iranian lawmaker says new documents provided by the family of Shia cleric Imam Moussa Sadr, who went missing in Libya, show that he still alive, Press TV reported.
Mohammad Karamirad added on Sunday that a delegation representing the Lebanese Amal Movement, headed by Khalil Hamdan, had been invited to Iran by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Meanwhile, another Iranian lawmaker said the Article 90 Committee of the Iranian Majlis (parliament) has discussed the case of Moussa Sadr in its latest session.
Lawmaker Seyyed Fazel Mousavi, told the official Majlis news agency, ICANA, on Sunday that the Lebanese delegates had also attended the session and that both sides had agreed to form a joint committee to investigate the fate of Moussa Sadr more seriously.
Member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Javad Karimi Qoddousi announced Majlis plans to send a delegation to Libya to investigate the fate of Sadr.
"We need to contact Libyan revolutionaries who have been witness to the martyrdom or the presence of Imam Moussa Sadr in Libya," the Iranian lawmaker said last Thursday.
Qoddousi added that following the 'fall' of the fugitive Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, Majlis is stepping up diplomatic efforts to clarify the fate of Imam Moussa.
"The investigation will be carried out in cooperation with the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, both of which are important in determining the fate of Imam Moussa Sadr," he went on to say.
Sadr, the founder of Lebanon's Amal Movement, was a popular and highly revered Lebanese Shia cleric of Iranian descent, who disappeared on August 31, 1978 while visiting Libya.
Sadr was scheduled to meet with officials from the government of Gaddafi along with two of his companions, Mohammed Yaqoub and Abbas Badreddin. It is widely believed in Lebanon that the Shia cleric was kidnapped on the orders of senior Libyan officials.
In 2008, Beirut issued an arrest warrant for Gaddafi over Sadr's disappearance.
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