Article Photos: Iran ayatollah is poster boy for influence in Iraq



In this photo Sept. 16, 2012, photo, a poster depicting Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Iraqi supreme leader 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 Iran’s presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran’s supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

In this photo Sept. 16, 2012, photo, a poster depicting Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, right, and Iraqi supreme leader 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 Iran’s presence in Iraq has hit the streets. Thousands of signs, that is, depicting Iran’s supreme leader gently smiling to a population once mobilized against the Islamic Republic in eight years of war. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)