Prominent Shia cleric Sayyid Muqtada al-Sad said the Jews of Iraqi origin could return to Iraq.

Answering a question sent to him on social media, Al Sadr, whose Saairun alliance won majority in the May 12 elections, did not rule out the possibility for the Jews who immigrated from Iraq to return.

"If they are loyal to Iraq, then they are welcome," Al Sadr said according to a document posted on social media.

Thousands of Jews were forced to leave Iraq for hostile policies against them in the middle of the last century. But they still own assets in Iraq.