1. The group also wants to end purges of members of Saddam's Baath party from the government.
2. purges
2. They fear Ahmadinejad will turn back the clock to the strictures and purges that followed the 1979 revolution.
3. Sunnis also wanted no reference to Saddam's party, fearing that would lead to widespread purges of Sunnis from government jobs and public life.