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Iraqi PM calls meeting of senior politicians to end crisis
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BAGHDAD, 18 August 2022, (TON): Iraq’s caretaker prime minister called a meeting of senior political leaders and party representatives, seeking a way out of a monthslong crisis amid a power struggle between rival Shiite blocs.
But the party of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr did not attend the gathering.
The absence of al-Sadr’s bloc effectively undermined Caretaker Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi’s effort to resolve the 10-month crisis.
Al-Sadr and his political rivals, the Iran-backed Shiite groups, have been at odds since after last year’s parliamentary elections.
Al-Sadr won the largest share of seats in the October vote but failed to form a majority government.
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