On 8 March 2014, The Tehran Times[REF] reported that a group of members of Iraqi parliament announced that they intended to nominate Ali al-Sistani for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
Thomas L. Friedman, former bureau chief of The New York Times in Beirut and Jerusalem (1982-88), nominated Ayatollah Sistani for the prize]] in 2005 and wrote the article titled "Nobel for Sistani" which was published in the Times on 20 March 2005 [REF].