Since Muqtada al-Sadr announced his withdrawal from Iraq’s political process and resorted to people’s choices and will to achieve change in the deteriorating conditions of the country, he has been practicing a
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The casting of nine million votes out of 26 million in the Iraqi snap election, held on October 10, 2021, recorded the lowest turnout of 41 percent since the invasion. The early
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the top religious authority of Iraqi Shias, called on Iraqis to participate in the October 10 parliamentary elections. In a statement released on Sistani’s personal website, the top
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Pope Francis and Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, a preeminent Shiite figure, are scheduled to meet on Saturday for 40 minutes, in the cleric’s modest home in Najaf. Al-Sistani has not left his
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