Bowing to intense pressure, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari agreed Thursday to allow Shiite lawmakers to find someone else to head the new government, abandoning his claim on another term in the face of Sunni and Kurdish opposition.
Al-Jaafari was a roadblock to the formation of a government in Iraq. While his stepping aside does not mean that everything will suddenly start falling into place in Iraq, it does mean that a wrench in the cogs of progress has been removed. Hopefully the various parties can maneuver to form a government now.
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