Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Al-Sistani has declared March 1 as the first day of Ramadan in Iraq. The office of Ayatollah Sistani, the supreme Shia authority in Iraq, announced that this Sunday will be ...

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Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, meanwhile, announced that the holy month would begin on Sunday.