Influential Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr vowed that new elections would be held as his followers flocked to a mass prayer in the occupied parts of Baghdad’s Green Zone after 10 months of political deadlock.
The leader of the Sadrist Movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, said on Saturday, August 6, his demands to dissolve the Iraqi parliament and for early elections has become the public demand with broad support.
