Posted on 09/07/2018 4:12:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Protesters have torched the Iranian consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra amid large protests against corruption and lack of basic services.
Crowds in the streets of the Shia Muslim-majority city chanted against Iranian influence on Iraqi politics. A protester was killed and 11 more wounded during clashes with security forces.
It is the fifth day of violent protests in the country's second city, with at least 10 people killed. Officials announced a curfew at about 21:00 local time (18:00 GMT).
Iran, the region's main Shia power, has fostered ties with Iraq's Shia majority since Saddam Hussein's downfall.
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In Thursday's protests, demonstrators burned local government buildings and political offices and forced the closure of Umm Qasr, the country's main sea port to the south of Basra.
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Hopefully this is a test run for the full scale iranian peoples revolution.
Hopefully this is a test run for the full scale iranian peoples revolution.
Hopefully this is a test run for the full scale iranian peoples revolution.
Hopefully this is a test run for the full scale iranian peoples revolution.
You can say that again.
You can give it a rest.
It’s Iraq.
Muqtada Sadr’s guys, taking over the local rackets and patronage jobs from Iran’s guys.
Sadr’s guys may be Shi’ite, but they are Arab rather than than Persian, and Iraqi rather than Iranian.
I apologize that my phone scewed up on the postings. Get that it is iraq but still believe its an orchestrated test run.
This is Iraq’s Shia radical Islamic fundamentalists seeking, for their own interests, distance from the national Iraqi government, also Shia dominant, using corruption and “Iranian influence” as the “cause” of the protests.
Just as in the U.S. under American Marxists, most protests are really venues for polticial organizing and raising political agendas, using special current events as the supposed “cause”, when whatever the cause it is really the excuse, not the purpose.
Iraq’s radical islamic fundamentalists are not more than six degrees of separation from Iran’s Mullahs, they just want to run their own show, that’s all.
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