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Iraq’s finance minister resigns over political crisis


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2022 Aug 16, 19:42, Baghdad
FILE - Ali Allawi, then Iraq's finance minister, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Oct. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Iraq’s finance minister resigned Tuesday, two government officials said, over the country’s worst political crisis in years involving an influential Shiite cleric and his Iran-aligned rivals.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, said Finance Minister Ali Allawi resigned during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday to protest the political conditions. They said Oil Minister Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar will become acting finance minister.

Allawi’s decision came weeks after members of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc resigned from parliament and his supporters stormed the parliament building in Baghdad. Al-Sadr later demanded that parliament be dissolved and early elections held.

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