NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's powerful anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told the government on Monday it must create 50,000 jobs, give Iraqis a share of the nation's oil wealth and step up other reforms or face protests.
Sadr, whose political movement is a key faction in Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition government, said he was giving the government a "last chance."
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