Ayatollah Sistani renews call for early elections in Iraq
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Iraq’s leading Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday, January 31, condemned the use of force to disperse protest camps across the country, and renewed calls for early elections to be held in a free and fair manner.
Sistani, who delivered his message through a representative at Friday prayers in the holy city of Karbala, also “heavily condemned” US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan.
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