Al-Ittijah TV (KH — official) posted a graphic quoting an Iraqi member of parliament — the caption text and the on-image signature give different names, with the image reading "MP Dr. Muqdad al-Khafaji" — saying "a suffocating financial crisis looms and may paralyse the joints of the state if current conditions persist," and that the response must not be "loading the cost of the crisis onto the employee and the citizen" but rather "opening the corruption files, recovering public money, activating non-oil revenues, stopping double salaries and monthly bonuses and unjustified privileges for senior officials and some ministries and resource-draining bodies, and unifying the salary scale." No other tracked channel in the collected window was observed carrying the same statement.
Opening the record…