Several pro-Iranian parties promise to launch an appeal after early results show losses for parties with PMF links. Pro-Iranian parties and armed groups have denounced early results from Iraq’s elections as “manipulation” and a “scam”. “We will take all available measures to prevent the manipulation of votes,” added the statement also signed by the party of former Prime Minister Haider …
Al-Muhandis was deputy leader of Hashd al-Shaabi, an Iraqi paramilitary group with close ties to Iran. Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, killed early on Friday in a US air strike in Baghdad, was seen as Tehran’s man in Iraq and a sworn enemy of the United States. The US strike on Baghdad’s international airport also killed Iranian general Qassem …
