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Administration officials say that now is the time to deal with Mr. Sadr, by force if necessary.

The ayatollah did not mention Mr. Sadr by name, but his own party has joined the Governing Council handpicked by the Americans.

Mr. Sadr, by contrast, withdrew from the government earlier this year after it refused his demands to set a date for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.

They said that the accusations were trumped up: that the new government was cracking down on Mr. Sadr by punishing his young followers.

However, hopes were raised that the stand-off in the town of Najaf might end relatively peacefully.Earlier, Iraq's defence minister had ratcheted up the pressure on Mr Sadr by vowing to storm the mosque.

The militia uprisings were set off in April after L. Paul Bremer III decided to crack down on Mr. Sadr by shutting down a popular Baghdad newspaper, Al Hawza, which American officials said had become a mouthpiece for Mr. Sadr's incendiary criticisms of the Americans.

Previously, the Iraqi Army was making plans to enter the militia-held area of Sadr City by force.

Iraqi officials have said the Americans were persuaded to compromise with Mr. Sadr last week by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most influential cleric.

Of his meeting with Mr. Sadr, brokered by Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, he said, "Yes, there's an agreement of the necessity to accelerate the formation of the government, and it must include all Iraqis".

Mr. Sadr responded by staging an uprising against American troops in Baghdad and Najaf, a Shiite holy city 100 miles south of the capital, that led to one of the most violent chapters in the war.

American commanders have said they hope the Shiite establishment in Najaf will deal with Mr. Sadr, wanted by the occupation authority in connection with the killing last April of another Shiite cleric.