About 100 protesters demanding jobs and better services from Iraq’s leaders closed access to Umm Qasr commodities port near the southern city of Basra Friday, port employees said. After nearly a week of demonstrations, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, expressed solidarity with residents, saying they faced an extreme lack of public services such as electricity in the suffocating summer heat.
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