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BAGHDAD As Iraq heads to the polls on October 10, a spotlight has fallen on the outsized influence neighbouring Iran wields but also on the growing popular backlash against it.The parliamentary vote is being held early as a concession to a pro-democracy movement that railed against an Iraqi political system it decried as inept, corrupt and beholden to Iran.“One of the more
BAGHDAD Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric on Wednesday urged Iraqis to vote in order to "carry out real change" in next month's parliamentary elections. The statement from Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's office came against the backdrop of potentially high rates of abstention in the October 10 ballot, which follows a popular uprising.
International, MNA | Iraq's top Shiite Muslim cleric on Wednesday urged Iraqis to vote in order to "carry out real change" in next month's parliamentary elections.
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