Protests against results in Iraqi Parliamentary elections turn violent

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It always feels like Western media and intellectuals are quick to jump on the alleged fraud train whenever an election result they don't like occurs, no matter how scant the evidence, but they favor the winner, suddenly they stop questioning...

I don't have any dog in this fight (knowing basically nothing about internal Iraqi politics), but it's an interesting observation...

When the pro-Iranian candidates won in 2018 the Western media didn't talk about voter fraud.

They did not, the Sadrists won against them and they still won just recently as the PMF failed to get enough seats.

[PSOL]

It always feels like Western media and intellectuals are quick to jump on the alleged fraud train whenever an election result they don't like occurs, no matter how scant the evidence, but they favor the winner, suddenly they stop questioning...

I don't have any dog in this fight (knowing basically nothing about internal Iraqi politics), but it's an interesting observation...

When the pro-Iranian candidates won in 2018 the Western media didn't talk about voter fraud.

They did not, the Sadrists won against them and they still won just recently as the PMF failed to get enough seats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adil_Abdul-Mahdi

"Abdul-Mahdi is a former member of the powerful Shi'a party the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC.[2] Long based in neighboring Iran, the group opposed a United States administration while holding close ties with the other, U.S.-backed, groups that opposed Saddam Hussein, including the Kurds and the Iraqi National Congress."

"Adil Abdul-Mahdi al-Muntafiki (Arabic: عادل عبد المهدي المنتفكي‎, born 1 January 1942) is an Iraqi politician who served as Prime Minister of Iraq from October 2018 until May 2020."

This was after the climax of protests in 2018 leaving the Sadrists without enough seats, but otherwise they were the people in charge of the country since then.