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Key Iraqi Shiite leaders Muqtada al-Sadr and Abdel Aziz al-Hakim announced a truce between their rival movements Oct. 6. Al-Hakim heads the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), Iraq’s largest and most cohesive Shiite political faction, which has close ties to Iran. Al-Sadr leads his own political faction of al-Sadrites, a nationalist movement that historically has been wary of Tehran’s influence in Iraq. The two leaders’ militias — al-Sadr’s Mehdi Army and al-Hakim’s Badr Organization — have been engaged in an intense and violent power struggle over Shiite control in the government and over oil resources in the South.

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