Iraqi pro-Iranian politician Amiri rejects election results as fabricated - TV

Iraqi pro-Iranian politician Amiri rejects election results as fabricated - TV
Iraqi pro-Iranian politician Amiri rejects election results as fabricated - TV Copyright Thomson Reuters 2021
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DUBAI - Hadi al-Amiri, one of the most powerful pro-Iranian figures in Iraq, has rejected the results of Iraq's elections as "fabricated", according to the Baghdad-based pro-Iranian TV channel al-Aahd.

"We will not accept these fabricated results, whatever the cost," the channel cited him as saying on Tuesday on its Telegram messaging account.

Iran-backed parties with links to militia groups accused of killing some of the nearly 600 people who died in mass protests in 2019 took a blow in the election, winning less seats than in the previous vote, in 2018.

Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's party was the biggest winner in the election held on Sunday, according to initial results.

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