“If you don’t resign, Iraq will turn into Syria and Yemen.” In Iraq, pressure mounts as two main backers of the prime minister agree he must step down.
Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi speaks during a symbolic funeral ceremony of Major General Ali al-Lami, who commands the Iraqi Federal Police's Fourth Division, who was killed in Salahuddin, in Baghdad, Iraq October 23, 2019.
Both Sadr and Hadi al Amiri, two influential leaders who once supported the government are determined to take Mahdi down. his call for resignation earlier, saying that political reconciliation is an easier solution to the current conflict because declaring early elections requires the majority of votes in the parliament, which is 165.
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