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Iraq voters put faith in radical Shia leader
FT News in Focus
English - May 17, 2018 04:00 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MB - ★★★★ - 133 ratingsNews Commentary News Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Iraq’s parliamentary election threw up a surprise result after Muqtada al-Sadr, a populist cleric once seen as the face of Shia resistance against the US occupation, looked like being the leader of the bloc with the most seats. Daniel Dombey discusses what this means for Iraq and the region with the FT’s Andrew England
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