The media today, on Sunday, stated that a defendant blew up a car bomb during the race.
Attempts to breach a security barrier towards the Green Zone in the capital city of Baghdad resulted in skirmishes that resulted in 20 deaths and 200 injuries, among them several Iraqi security officials.
According to media reports, the protesters held up signs demanding for the political establishment in Iraq to be overthrown.
Storming the Parliament
In protest against the “coordination framework” candidate for prime minister, hundreds of Muqtada al-Sadr supporters stormed the parliament building in the Green Zone of Baghdad, the capital of Iraq.
Political difficulties
Huge security and political challenges besieging Iraq amid a series of assassinations and collective withdrawals, as well as sectarian quotas in order to win the voters by intimidating them from nationalities and other sects.
Photos showing Nuri al-Maliki, the former prime minister of Iraq, transporting weaponry close to his residence in the Green Zone of downtown Baghdad, were released by the media.
He was given the authority to carry out the execution of an Iraqi car bombing defendant.
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