The powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has further increased pressure on his political rivals by calling for parliament to be dissolved by the end of the week.
势力强大的伊拉克神职人员穆克塔达·萨德尔呼吁在本星期结束前解散议会,进一步向他的政治对手施加压力。
VOA Standard 2014年4月合集
The prime minister’s position likely was strengthened when influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr announced he was pulling out of Iraqi politics earlier this year.
Muqtadā al-Ṣadr (Arabic: مقتدى الصدر; born 12 August 1973) is an Iraqi Shia cleric, politician and militia leader. He is the leader of a political party, the Sadrist Movement and the leader of Saraya al-Salam, a Shiite militia that is a reformation of the previous militia he led during the American occupation of Iraq, the Mahdi Army.