Influential Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose supporters earlier this month stormed the parliament in Baghdad and have since held a sit-in outside the building, stepped up his demands Wednesday and issued a veiled threat of renewed violence.
Sadr said on Twitter that the judiciary has one week to dissolve the legislature. The cleric has previously demanded that the parliament be dissolved and that early elections are held but this time, he set a deadline.
