According to the Al Mayadeen portal, everything responds to an attempt to step up tensions in the country by showing an exaggerated current event on social media.

According to the report, they social media are using platforms to exert political pressure, at a time when citizens are living in a state of anxiety and fear due to political instability.

On Saturday, hundreds of citizens took to the streets to commemorate the third year of protests that led to Adel Abdul Mahdi´s resignation and ended up in an armed clash between security forces and armed protesters, according to press reports.

After U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq experienced a bloody war that lasted through 2011 and left thousands of dead, a devastated country plunged into an economic, political and social crisis, it has not yet been able to recover from.

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