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Covering U.S. health & pharma policy in DC for @Reuters. Previously based in Iraq, Egypt. He/him. #COYS. Tips: ahmed.aboulenein@tr.com https://t.co/BsdCfo88o6
Oct 30, 2019 12 tweets 7 min read
#thread: Yesterday was the largest turnout in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square since #IraqProtests resumed Friday. Protesters motivated by security forces shooting dead comrades in #Karbala and PM @AdilAbdAlMahdi’s refusal to call an early election. #Iraq 1/11
reut.rs/36l9QnJ Parliament’s reforms didn’t do it for them either. Abdul Mahdi resigning is not their demand though, they want the whole system gone. Parliament, the PM, his government, and most of all the political parties run by elites they say are corrupt and beholden to Iran/the U.S. 2/11