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(220728) -- BAGHDAD, July 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr try to break into the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq, July 27, 2022. Hundreds of followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday broke into the Iraqi parliament building in central Baghdad to protest against the nomination of Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani for the post of prime minister. The protest came two days after the Coordination Framework, an umbrella group of Shiite parliamentary parties, nominated Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani for the post of prime minister. (Xinhua/Khalil Dawood)

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