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
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