Posted on 11/04/2019 2:33:30 AM PST by McGruff
Iraqis scaled the wall around the Iranian consulate in Karbala and raised an Iraqi flag over it. They said only the Iraqi flag should fly high in the sky and that Iranians should be ejected. Other protesters tried to burn the wall around the compound.
This is the second time the consulate has been attacked in a week; it was previously targeted on October 26. Protests in Iraq have reached their crescendo after a month in which 250 demonstrators have been killed. The Iraqi Prime Minister has been pressured to resign. Protesters have targeted the political party offices of Iranian-linked parties and militias. The militias, known as Hashd al-Shaabi, have been alleged to use snipers to shoot demonstrators. In addition reports indicate that Iran has used a heavy hand to try to suppress Iraqi protesters by working through political allies such as the Badr Organization and Fatah Alliance head Hadi al-Amiri.
Iran sent its IRGC Quds Force general Qassem Soleimani to Iraq last month to help advise the government on the crackdown...
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Wonder if they are going to bet a special delivery anniversary memento tomorrow.
Too much Iranian influence.
“Demanding better basic public services like electricity and water and renouncing corruption, joblessness “
Then attacked Iranian consulate because their minions started attacking & shooting the protesters.
Big protests in Lebanon, too.
It started quietly a month or so ago with scattered protests. Those steadily expanded until last week more than 200,000 Iraqis marched in Baghdad, raging against the Iraqi government and a foreign occupier — not the United States this time, but Iran.
While the current leaders of the Iraqi government cower inside the Green Zone, where officials running the American occupation once sheltered, the protesters outside direct their anger against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which they now see as having too much influence.
“Free, free Iraq,” they shout, “Iran get out, get out.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/world/middleeast/iraq-protests-iran.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
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