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BAGHDAD: Cleric Moqtada Sadr may be Iraq’s big election winner but he will still have to haggle with his opponents, linked to armed pro-Iranian groups, to forge a new government. War-scarred Iraq — an oil-rich country plagued by corruption and poverty — last Sunday held its fifth parliamentary elections since the 2003 US-led invasion toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. Sadr, a …

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