Today, Friday, demonstrators organized a march in Al-Nusour Square in the Iraqi capital Baghdad towards the Supreme Judicial Council in the center of the capital to demand an end to corruption and quotas. The demonstrators chanted slogans condemning Tehran’s interference in Iraq’s affairs, saying, “Iran does not rule yet.”
Tight security measures
The Iraqi News Agency said that the march, in which demonstrators from the forces of the Tishreen movement came from several provinces, took place amid strict security measures.
It is noteworthy that the Iraqi capital lived a few days ago (on August 29, 2022) violent clashes that killed 30 people and injured regarding 600 during the confrontations that erupted last Monday, and lasted for nearly 24 hours in the heavily fortified Green Zone, which includes government headquarters and diplomatic missions, between supporters of the Iraqi government. Al-Sadr on the one hand, and elements of the popular crowd on the other.
final retirement
Those clashes took place following tens of thousands of Sadrist’s supporters took to the streets to express their anger, following he announced his “final withdrawal” from political life.
While many southern governorates sympathized with these demonstrations, especially Basra.
10 months without government
This tension came months following the holding of parliamentary elections on the tenth of last October 2021, in which Al-Sadr won the largest share in Parliament, without being able to form a government or elect a new president of the country, due to the lack of a quorum, and the adherence to the “coordinating framework” Al-Sadr’s arch-rival, who It includes Nouri al-Maliki and the Fatah Alliance and other parties loyal to Iran, forming the government.