Rubin writes: "Pressured by an expanding protest movement and a rising death toll, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi of Iraq said Friday that he would submit his resignation to Parliament, taking the country into greater uncertainty and possibly months of turmoil ahead."
Friends and family members raised the coffin of 16-year-old Hussein Abid, who was killed by Iraqi security forces on Thursday. (photo: Ivor Prickett/NYT)
Iraq Prime Minister Says He Will Resign Amid Protests
30 November 19
The announcement comes after demonstrators set fire to the Iranian Consulate and hundreds died in antigovernment unrest.
ressured by an expanding protest movement and a rising death toll, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi of Iraq said Friday that he would submit his resignation to Parliament, taking the country into greater uncertainty and possibly months of turmoil ahead.
Mr. Mahdi’s resignation would make him another prominent political casualty in a wave of recent antigovernment unrest that has swept the region.
Deep-seated anger over corruption and Iran’s influence in Iraqi politics are the major drivers of the protests across Iraq. In Lebanon, citizen rage over that country’s dysfunctional government pushed its prime minister to announce his resignation in October. And in Iran itself, the authorities scrambled to crush protests and riots in 100 cities set off a few weeks ago by an abrupt increase in fuel prices — the deadliest unrest to hit Iran in years.
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