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No change in Muqtada al-Sadr's anti-US stance

Iraqi Shiite cleric and leader Moqtada al-Sadr shows his ink-stained index finger and holds a national flag while surrounded by people outside a polling station in the central holy city of Najaf on May 12, 2018. (AFP)

Altaf Ahmad
Press TV, Baghdad

Heavyweight Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has reiterated his anti-US stance again, stressing that the presence of US forces in Iraq is illegal and it is the government duty to deal with the matter. Sadr whose alliance managed to become the winner of early April May parliamentary elections believes ties between Tehran are strong, deep-rooted and historic and that Iraq will never be an enemy of Iran. From Baghdad, Press TV’s Altaf Ahmad reports. 


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