Iran Ayatollah Is Poster Boy For Influence In Iraq

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and LARA JAKES, Associated Press
Tue, 09/25/2012 - 4:36am

BAGHDAD (AP) -- After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iran's presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran's supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war....

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