UN calls on Iraqi politicians to end seven-month stalemate

United Nations, United States (AFP) May 17, 2022

The UN envoy to Iraq on Tuesday urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest.

“The streets are about to boil over in Iraq,” Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters. “We cannot afford to go back to a situation that we observed in October 2018,” when deadly street
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