Iraq's most senior Sunni politician voiced a desperate call Sunday for Arab nations to help stop what he called an "unprecedented genocide campaign" by Shiite militias armed, trained and controlled by Iran. 

Adnan al-Dulaimi said "Persians" and "Safawis," Sunni terms for Iranian Shiites, were on the brink of total control in Baghdad and soon would threaten Sunni regimes which predominate in the Mideast. "It is a war that has started in Baghdad and they will not stop there but will expand it to all Arab lands," al-Dulaimi wrote to The Associated Press.

Al-Dulaimi resorted to the extremely harsh language. "Arabs, your brothers in the land of the two rivers and in Baghdad in particular are exposed to an unprecedented genocide campaign by the militias and death squads that are directed, armed and supported by Iran," al-Dulaimi said.

And he castigated fellow Sunnis in the Middle East, saying they "did not make any move and did not even bother to denounce what is taking place against your brothers at the hands of Iranian militias and death squads."

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