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...Paramilitary strongman Hadi al-Ameri, who has close ties to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, recently accused the US of using the dollar “as a weapon to starve nations”....
...Binaa’s bloc is mostly made up of the Fatah party led by militia leader turned politician Hadi al-Ameri, who is close to Tehran....
...President Barham Salih said on Thursday a bill that would allow Iraqis to go to the polls was expected to reach parliament next week, just a year after the last election....
...Also in the past week, Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the expeditionary arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, intervened directly to ensure Hadi al-Amiri, a Tehran-backed militia chief, reversed...
...“[Iraq] is a success that is emerging after four decades of conflict,” says President Barham Salih....
...Mr Salih then directly appointed Mr Abdul Mahdi, an independent, as prime minister....
...said the move signalled prior agreement on the prime minister’s candidacy between the two Shia alliances that have the most parliamentary seats, led respectively by Moqtada al-Sadr, the Shia cleric, and Hadi...
...city, US forces were attacked by insurgents armed with rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, but by noon had managed to take control both of government buildings and the gold-domed Imam Ali al-Hadi...
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