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Iraq's top cleric says aides not to join campaigns

27.02.2010 21:01

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Iraq's top Shiite cleric on Saturday ordered his representatives across the country not to campaign for any blocs or candidates contesting the March 7 parliamentary elections' It is a move designed to assert the Iranian-born cleric's neutrality. An official at the office of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani said the cleric, who is highly revered by Iraq's Shiite majority, also decided not to receive...

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