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Protesters leave after storming Iraqi parliament

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Baghdad - 27 July 2022 1. Protesters standing on desks and seats, some waiving Iraqi flags in Parliaments 2. Protesters holding government crest 3. Protesters on parliament floor ++NIGHT SHOTS++

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Baghdad - 27 July 2022 1. Protesters marching on road 2. Various of protesters sitting and climbing on Iraqi Parliament's front wall, riot police using water cannon to disperse protesters, other riot police and protesters on ground level 3. Protesters trying to pull down wall, riot police 4. Various of protesters pulling down section of wall, protesters walking through, protesters gathered behind wall

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters breached Baghdad’s parliament Wednesday in a protest against the selection of a nominee for prime minister by Iran-backed parties (July 27)

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters breached Baghdad’s parliament on Wednesday chanting anti-Iran curses in a demonstration against a nominee for prime minister by Iran-backed parties. (July 28)

Hundreds of protesters overtook the Iraqi parliament on July 27, as the country approaches 300 days without a functional government. According to Reuters, Iraq’s government has been unable to choose a new president or prime minister since the October 2021 elections, due to ‘infighting among Shi'ite and Kurdish groups.’

Supporters of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad stormed into Iraq’s Parliament inside the Green Zone in the largest demonstration since 2020, July 30, 2022.

housands of supporters of Shi'ite populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed Baghdad's fortified government zone and broke into parliament for the second time in a week, leaving at least 125 people injured and escalating a political stand-off.

upporters of Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr stormed the country's parliament for the second time in a week. They're protesting the formation of a government by pro-Iran parties.

Security forces used water cannons on rival protesting camps of Shi'ite Muslim men supporting cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on one side and Iran-aligned groups on another in Baghdad.

Supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr, protesting against a rival bloc's nomination for prime minister, gathered inside Iraq's parliament in the capital Baghdad's high-security Green Zone.

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