Iraq designated PM Adnan Zurfi pledges elections within year as rockets hit Baghdad
A handout picture released by the media office of the Iraqi Presidency on March 17, 2020 shows President Barham Saleh meeting with Prime Minister-designate Adnan al Zurfi in Baghdad.
He served multiple terms as governor of the Shia holy city of Najaf and was elected in the 2018 parliamentary vote under the Nasr coalition, led by ex-PM Haider al Abadi. Zurfi has 30 days to pull together a cabinet, which would be put to a vote of confidence in parliament.While he is likely to have the backing of some Shia parties and the Kurdish and Sunni factions, he was quickly spurned by the powerful Fatah bloc, parliament's second-largest.
Zurfi's nomination comes at an especially tumultuous time for Iraq, which has been battered by almost six months of street protests, collapsing oil prices, the novel coronavirus outbreak and renewed rocket attacks. None of the attacks has been claimed, but Washington pinned the blame for many of them on Kataeb Hezbollah, an Iran-backed faction in the Hashed, which is nominally incorporated into the Iraqi state's armed forces.It also killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani and the Hashed's deputy chief in a drone strike in January, sparking deep anger as Iran and the US approached the brink of war before they pulled back after retaliatory missile attacks from Iran.
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