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Iraq’s radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr has announced he is retiring from political life, in a handwritten note posted on his website.
The statement said he would not hold future government positions or have any representatives in parliament.
Mr Sadr and his militia group, the Mehdi Army, gained prominence after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 MOREHERE