Iranian visitors shop at a fabrics store in the old covered market in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Wednesday, July 1, 2009. There is no place outside Iran that has closer links to Tehran's ruling establishment than Iraq's holy Shiite city of Najaf, where the silence during Iran's postelection crisis says much about the deep complexities of their cross-border bonds. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)