The widely circulated clips on social media showed attacks on a building, and the sound of shells and shots were heard.
A video was attached to the comment, “The Iranian embassy in Baghdad is now being bombed with missiles.”
According to Iraqi media, the Green Zone in central Baghdad witnessed violent clashes and heavy gunfire this evening.
Several cities north of Basra witnessed similar incidents, with heavy gunfire.
Earlier, the head of the Sadrist Parliamentary bloc, Hassan al-Adhari, announced today, Monday, that the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, has launched a hunger strike until the violence stops. While Nuri al-Maliki fled to an unknown destination.
Iraq witnessed massive demonstrations today, and the demonstrators were able to storm the presidential palaces in Baghdad, hours following the leader of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, announced his retirement from political work.
