Iraq 's top Shiite cleric , Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani , ordered him to stop making trouble before elections in which the Shiites , who are a majority of the population , were assured of winning control of the government after decades of oppression under the Sunni minority led by the government of Saddam Hussein .
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