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Iraq cleric Moqtada Al Sadr says demonstrators must leave the parliament square and Green Zone within the next 60 minutes ...

"This is not the way to end corruption, you must go home," he adds
#Iraq: "I am not going to interfere in politics. I am just an ordinary citizen, I have no right in politics. I am saddened by what has happened to my country. My country is a prisoner of corruption, and has become a prisoner of corruption and violence together." Al Sadr added
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Iraqi security forces will lift a nationwide curfew, Iraq’s state news agency reports, after Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr called on his supporters to withdraw from the streets.
"I was hoping for a peaceful protest but what has happened is not a protest. This is not the way to end corruption."

Iraq's populist cleric Moqtada Al Sadr gives protesters an hour to withdraw from capital after at least 30 die in clashes
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