VIDEO: Sadr steps down from politics: will it lead to an Iranian infiltration?
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Iraq's influential Shia leader and firebrand cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced in a tweet on Monday that he is retiring from politics and shuttering all political offices. The move comes almost eleven months after Sadr’s party, the Sadrist Bloc, won the majority of parliamentary elections but not enough to obtain a majority government. Since Sadr refused to accommodate robust Shia rivals closely allied to Iran, no government was formed, leaving the country in political limbo and turmoil.
VIDEO: Sadr steps down from politics: will it lead to an Iranian infiltration?
VIDEO: Sadr steps down from politics: will it…
VIDEO: Sadr steps down from politics: will it lead to an Iranian infiltration?
Iraq's influential Shia leader and firebrand cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced in a tweet on Monday that he is retiring from politics and shuttering all political offices. The move comes almost eleven months after Sadr’s party, the Sadrist Bloc, won the majority of parliamentary elections but not enough to obtain a majority government. Since Sadr refused to accommodate robust Shia rivals closely allied to Iran, no government was formed, leaving the country in political limbo and turmoil.