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Iraq’s finance chief resigns in protest of political crisis
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BAGHDAD, 17 August 2022, (TON): Iraq’s finance minister resigned Tuesday, two government officials said, over the country’s worst political crisis in years involving an influential Shiite cleric and his Iran-aligned rivals.
The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said Finance Minister Ali Allawi resigned during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday to protest the political conditions.
They said “Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar will become acting finance minister.”
Allawi’s decision came weeks after members of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc resigned from parliament and his supporters stormed the parliament building in Baghdad.
Al-Sadr later demanded that parliament be dissolved and early elections held.
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