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Iran urges Iraq to include Sunnis
BAGHDAD Iran called Saturday for Iraq to include Sunnis in the new government and said Shiites would have to form an alliance with them for that to happen.
It was a major shift in Tehran's stance toward Iraq, because in the past Iran, Iraq's huge Shiite neighbor, has always advocated a Shiite-dominated governing alliance.
In announcing the new policy, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's ambassador to Iraq, suggested that any successful coalition would have to include the Iraqiya political alliance, which won a narrow plurality of the parliamentary seats in the March 7 elections, thanks to votes from Sunnis and secular Iraqis.
Iran urges Iraq to include Sunnis: Times Argus Online
BAGHDAD Iran called Saturday for Iraq to include Sunnis in the new government and said Shiites would have to form an alliance with them for that to happen.
It was a major shift in Tehran's stance toward Iraq, because in the past Iran, Iraq's huge Shiite neighbor, has always advocated a Shiite-dominated governing alliance.
In announcing the new policy, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, Iran's ambassador to Iraq, suggested that any successful coalition would have to include the Iraqiya political alliance, which won a narrow plurality of the parliamentary seats in the March 7 elections, thanks to votes from Sunnis and secular Iraqis.
Iran urges Iraq to include Sunnis: Times Argus Online
