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Top Iraq cleric al-Sistani urges restraint to avoid protests ‘chaos’
Iraq’s Shia Muslim spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, urged both protesters and security forces on Friday to exercise “restraint” to keep renewed demonstrations from degenerating into “chaos.”
Al-Sistani’s weekly sermon was delivered by his representatives shortly after two demonstrators died in renewed protests in Baghdad on Friday.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi said in Thursday's address that a government collapse would drag Iraq into further turmoil.
“The resignation of the government today without a constitutional alternative, will lead the country into chaos,” he said.
source:AFP
