Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Baghdad and Iraq's southern provinces Sunday, rejecting a nominee for the post of prime minister who some say is too close to Iran.
The demonstrations comes ahead a Sunday midnight deadline for naming an interim prime minister, with no apparent solution in sight.
Pressure from the demonstrations led Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi to resign late last month, after Iraq's most powerful religious authority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, withdrew support for Abdul-Mahdi's government. The political deadlock has been worsened by a dispute over which bloc is actually the largest in parliament. The numbers have continued to change since last year's elections, with an unknown number of lawmakers leaving some blocs and joining others.
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