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The Tornado will have whatever standard the designers decided was the most efficient, regardless of what designation you give it. After the decision is made on a standard, and as an engineer you should know this, it is not often difficult to adopt (existing) technology to conform to that standard.

French technology (for example) interfacing with a MIG (for example) is certainly worth doing if:

a) The French technology is superior to anything in the Russian inventory.
b) The French technology can be adapted with little or no loss of functionality or capability due to different voltages, space requirements, electrical bus, etc (Intel does this, BTW, with Pentium and Celeron processors, for example).
c)The modifications required to mix and match airframe to technology would not require unreasonable changes to be made to one or the other or both.
d) You believe that French Engineers and systems techs are capable of adapting their technology to Russian standards and vice-versa. I believe they are. The principles of engineering, electronics and computers do not miraculously change due to geography.
e) It makes economic sense to buy someone else's technology rather than devote the resources to developing your own.

Taking all of those factors into account, not only is it possible to adapt French aviation technology to a Russian airframe, it's probable that this is the case when we're talking about Iraq, which has no indigenous aircraft industry of it's own, but which had enough oil money to make it worth someone's time to figure these issues out.

This aircraft, and many more like them, were buried for a reason:

a) To hide a valuable asset that otherwise might be destroyed for future use.
b) To hide evidence of violations of UN sanctions.
c) To cover (possible) French government involvement in circumventing sanctions and supplying an American enemy with weapons and technology that could kill Americans in the field, or innocents in an act of terrorism.
d) The supply of parts had dried up and rather than lose a capital investment in such an aircraft, it was buried to prevent it's destruction in an American attack, just waiting for the day when the flow of parts, engineers, etc would resume.
e) Saddam Hussein is an idiot and the people in charge of his armed forces were even more so.

First of all it is the last e).

Saddam and his people were idiots. Full stop.

There is more Yugoslav/Serbian equipment in Iraq than French. The Yugos were there big time.

A standard is not introduced per aircraft a standard last for a long time and it is implemented on all aircraft to reduce cost and maintainance time. Also to allow for future upgrade.

The MIL-STD-1553 was introduced in 1978 and it is standard in all US military aircraft (fighting aircraft not transports). Also the VME bus standard is very common.

Do you know what a bullshit story is because that is what the French Iraqi military help accusation is. Nothing more nothing less.

In 2002 the Ukrainian government was accused of selling Kolchuga Air Defence system that was able to detect Stealth planes.

The US even went to Ukraine for inspection and now were in Iraq and have you heard anything about it?? NOOO. Because it was bullshit. The Ukrainian president was pressured for some short term political goal.

Then the story about Chinese experts installing fibre-optic equipment for air defence in Iraq. Well the US in Iraq. Where are the fibre-optics??

Don't argue over a B.S. Story.

Oh buy the way the later model Russian planes use 486 processors :)). Go figure!!