February 23, 2011 10:12 pm · Posted in NEWS (Iraq & World Currency) · Comments Off
NY Times: Iraq’s Top Shiite Leaders Urge Delay of Protests
Posted: February 23, 2011 by THE CURRENCY NEWSHOUND – Just Hopin in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and YASIR GHAZI
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s top Shiite religious leaders, the populist cleric Moktada al-Sadr and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called Wednesday for Iraqis to defer their protests, leading many members of the country’s Shiite majority to say they would not join in nationwide demonstrations scheduled for Friday.
Many Sunnis said they still planned to go ahead with the demonstrations, which are being billed as a “day of rage.” But the Shiite withdrawal dealt a significant blow to protest organizers, who had hoped to fill Iraq’s streets with millions of people to call for improved government services.
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