Iranians, Iraqis Mourn Death Of Shiite Leader (ap)

FILE - In this July 12, 2004 file photo, the head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leaves a news conference in Tehran, Iran. Al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq's most influential politicians, died Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009 in Iran, the country that was long his key ally. He was 59. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)AP – Thousands of people in Iran flocked to a mourning ceremony to show their respects to the influential Iraqi Shiite leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, who died Wednesday in Tehran.

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