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** FILE ** In this photo Sept. 16, 2012, photo, a poster depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, late father of the radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad, Iraq. After years of growing influence, a new sign of Iranís presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iranís supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq seeing signs of Iran’s influence

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

A poster depicting Iran's supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right), and Ayatollah Mohammed Sadiq al-Sadr, late father of the radical anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, towers over a Baghdad street on Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iranian ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq

By Lara Jakes and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press