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Protesters claim that more supporters of Iraq’s influential Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr joined a sit-in protest inside parliament on Sunday in the capital Baghdad. The protesters are in control of Iraq’s parliamentary building and authorities are cautious not to provoke them. According to protesters, security forces are maintaining order inside parliament without weapons to avoid any further unrest. On Saturday, thousands of al-Sadr loyalists broke into the parliament building for the second time this week, in an escalation of months of political deadlock in the country. They announced a sit…