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Iraqi cleric Sadr’s supporters storm parliament for second time in a week

Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr raise a portrait of him as they protest at a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister, along the Al-Jumhuriya (Republic) bridge that leads to Baghdad's high-security Green Zone, on July 30, 2022. © Ahmad al-Rubaye, AFP

Supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Saturday stormed the parliament building inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone for the second time in a week, an AFP photographer said.

The demonstrators were seen waving Iraqi flags and pictures of al-Sadr inside the legislature, as thousands protested outside amid a deep political crisis that has left Iraq without a government since October elections.

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