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A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi’ite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended sit-in protest.
Key Points:
About
Iraq
- Iraq is a country in southwestern Asia.
- It shares border with Turkey in north, Iran in east, Syria and Jordan in west and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in South.
- Ghundah Zhur is the country’s highest point, along the Iran-Iraq border.
- Iraq is drained by the Tigris-Euphrates river system.
- A steady northerly, and northwesterly summer wind, the shamāl, affects all of Iraq.
