The UN envoy to Iraq has urged Iraqi politicians to end a deadlock which has kept parliament from forming a new government for more than seven months, warning that the crisis could spark civil unrest.
"The streets are about to boil over in Iraq," Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told reporters on Tuesday. "We cannot afford to go back to a situation that we observed in October 2018," when deadly street protests shook the country.
