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BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government has opened the door for pro-Iranian militias to carry out special operations aimed at thwarting demonstrations after its traditional measures failed to contain the widespread protest movement.

Iran has encouraged the Iraqi government to quell the protest, implicating the killing of some 250 protesters and wounding about 12,000 others. But this widespread government repression did not produce results, but may have been counterproductive, as the number of demonstrators in Baghdad and the provinces increased.

Observers say that the government insisting on confronting these protests with violence, it has no choice but to allow Iraqi militias loyal to Iran within the popular mobilization, to take responsibility for securing the interests of symbols of the political system, through intimidation and terror.

Security sources told "Arabs" that "cases of forced absenteeism of activists contributing to support the protest movement, increased since the beginning of this month."

According to observers, Iraqi militias loyal to Iran launched a campaign in Baghdad to hunt down the activists and arrest and liquidate in some cases, taking advantage of the preoccupation of public opinion and the media news of what is happening in the arena of demonstrations.

The sources said that dozens of families registered their children missing in police stations east of the capital Baghdad during the past three days, while activists said that colleagues share their tents sit in Tahrir Square did not attend for days.

The sources said that the Iraqi security services received a report from the Palestine Street area east of Baghdad, about a suspicious movement in one of the houses believed to be owned by a leader of the Asaib Ahl al-Haq Movement of Iran, and in the follow-up and raided the house, investigators discovered the presence of a number of bodies.

The sources pointed out that the confessions of a person who was arrested when they raided the house, confirmed that the bodies belong to activists were kidnapped and killed after following their movements to and from Tahrir Square.

On Sunday morning, media activists reported that masked gunmen kidnapped a paramedic on her way back from Tahrir Square to her family home in Bayaa, southwest of Baghdad.

Journalist Hewa Othman said that an armed group abducted "civil activist and paramedic Saba Al-Mahdawi during her return from Tahrir Square to her home in Bayaa," adding that "information indicates that the kidnappers went to the Ziona area" east of Baghdad.

The Iraqi protests began in Baghdad and the Shiite-dominated central and southern provinces in early October, but culminated in the 25th. Activists estimated the number of participants in the protests, described as the largest in the history of the country, about nine million Iraqis, more than the number of participants in the last ballot in the country last year.

Demonstrators in different parts of Iraq agreed that their protests were not a "hungry revolution," as the authority would like to call them, not to demand jobs and services, as political parties were trying to promote, but aimed at overthrowing the political system based on Iran's loyalty.

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Khomeini Street became the street of the martyrs of the October Revolution.

 

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Iran has hastily summoned Sadr's leader Moqtada al-Sadr to make understandings aimed at making Iran's plan to end protests in Iraq a success. A source close to the Hashd leadership said Iran had told the Hashd leaders not to fret over the demonstrators, to avoid rough handling of them, and to turn a blind eye to the abuse of pictures of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei and Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani by angry protesters. The Iranian plan, according to the source, includes three main axes:

The first is to neutralize Muqtada al-Sadr and take his followers out of the demonstration yards in order to weaken them and raise the ceiling of security protection.

Second: Preventing militias linked to Iran from clashing with demonstrators and inflicting heavy losses among their ranks for fear of the internationalization of the crisis and out of the control of Iran and the Iraqi government together.

Third: to satisfy the Shiite authority Ali al-Sistani, who hinted to keep the crowd away from friction with the demonstrators, and convince him that there is no practical intervention of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Iraq to neutralize his position and lift his support for the demonstrations!

As part of the implementation of the Iranian plan, the leader of Asaib Ahl al-Haq retracted the Iranian accusations of the demonstrators in connection with foreign agendas.

Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iranian-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq, said 99 percent of the demonstrators were not linked to foreign agendas and goals, stressing that the formation of an independent election commission under party domination seemed like a lie that no one believed.

The pro-Iranian parties and forces ignored the change of the name of a street in Basra, which was named after Khomeini and called it the street of the martyrs of the Tishreen Revolution.

Sources in the legal committee in parliament expect the specialized committees to begin the first steps to transform the political system in Iraq from parliamentary to presidential. Hadi al-Amiri, the head of the Fatah-affiliated coalition of Iran, has said that the parliamentary system is no longer appropriate for Iraq.

The pro-Iranian forces are seeking to market a personality from among their ranks and promote it as a candidate for the presidency of Iraq, despite the prior rejection by the Iraqi street of any candidate submitted by the ruling parties, whatever their qualifications and background.

On the other hand, an informed Iranian source announced that Iran would stop all religious visits to Iraq amid fears of the spread of demonstrations to Tehran. This decision came after the Iranian regime closed the border points with Iraq, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement advising the Iranians not to travel to Iraq.

 

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7 hours ago, yota691 said:

Looks like Sadrs plan might be spilling into his own country. Iran.

On the other hand, an informed Iranian source announced that Iran would stop all religious visits to Iraq amid fears of the spread of demonstrations to Tehran. This decision came after the Iranian regime closed the border points with Iraq, and the Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement advising the Iranians not to travel to Iraq.

 

 

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Iraq .. Submit a new election law to the House of Representatives this week

Iraq .. Submit a new election law to the House of Representatives this week
Iraqi President Barham Salih receives the heads and representatives of trade unions and organizations at the Peace Palace in Baghdad
 04 November 2019 12:15 PM

Mubasher: The President of the Republic, Barham Saleh, met at the Peace Palace in Baghdad with the heads and representatives of trade unions and organizations.

President Saleh listened, according to a statement by the Presidency, to the views of the attendees regarding the protest movement and its demands, and how to work to make this situation in Baghdad and a number of provinces a key to a real and radical reform work for the political process and the system of government in the country.

The President of the Republic, that the ongoing work in the presidency of the Republic to prepare a new draft election law will be completed and submitted to the House of Representatives this week.

The Iraqi President Barham Saleh, on Thursday evening, announced  his agreement to hold early elections;  after the approval of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to resign .

The president said that the new bill allows to ensure respect for the views of voters and achieve justice in the competition for access to the House of Representatives, as well as the change of the Electoral Commission of another commission on purely professional grounds and away from politicization and party loyalties.

The President of the Republic, that the peaceful nature of the demonstrations, which were enshrined in the values of true nationalism and the determination of Iraqis to evaluate the course of the political process is helping to further hard work, which can make Iraq and the system of governance in a sound democratic framework, and provide the appropriate ground to eliminate corruption And start building, progress and raise the state.

In a statement late Monday,  Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi denounced the continuing casualties of demonstrators and security forces, despite the peaceful demonstrations and the loss of billions due to the suspension of ports and banditry .

The Iraqi President, in a televised statement last Thursday, the  approval of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to resign, calling on the blocks to choose an acceptable alternative, in light of the commitment to constitutional and legal contexts and to prevent a constitutional vacuum .

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Thousands of Iraqis continue to pour into Baghdad's Tahrir Square
Demonstrations in Iraq
 

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Thousands of anti-government protesters gathered in downtown Baghdad on Monday, uniting the appeal of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to end protests which he says are costing the Iraqi economy billions of dollars and disrupting daily life .
 
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Iraq .. Adel Abdul-Mahdi's speech described as "speech without color and taste and no smell"

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Today's newspapers are concerned with protests in Lebanon and Iraq and calls for general strikes in both countries. Newspapers referred to the speech of Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi, and some opinion writers accused him of lying after calling for an end to the protests and warning him of the presence of demonstrators among the demonstrators causing violence. In the press, Algerian police and gendarmes storm the Oran Judicial Council.

 

Protests calling for change continue in Iraq, Lebanon and other countries. Newspapers follow developments in these countries. The Iraqi newspaper Al- Zaman highlighted the open strike in Iraq and wrote on its front page that several schools and government institutions continued to close their doors in Baghdad and a number of southern cities. Al-Zaman also referred to protests and sit-ins that swept across several Iraqi provinces and cities.

The beginning of the strike confused the authority wrote Al -Mada newspaper She said that the strike appeared clearly in schools, where most of the students in Baghdad and a number of provinces returned to their homes after the suspension. The newspaper also highlighted the situation on the ground in Baghdad and other cities and reports of the abduction of an activist and a paramedic, Saba al-Mahdawi, who disappeared on Saturday night as she was returning to her home. Activists have launched a campaign of calls for officials to release her, reveal the fate of all activists and take action to protect protesters, the newspaper said.

In the face of these conditions in Iraq, Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi called for the need to restore normalcy and warned of the economic losses incurred by the country and the muddles among the demonstrators intertwined with the security forces and cause casualties. According to him. In the term newspaper An article comparing the prime minister's speech yesterday to other speeches contradicts that. The author of the article, Ali Hussein, believes that the Iraqi prime minister is trying to mix the papers in a way that suits his desires and not what suits the people who gave nearly three hundred martyrs, thousands of wounded, hundreds of detainees and dozens of absentees only a month ago. Adel Abdul-Mahdi continues to write speeches without color, taste and smell, trying to say that there is a conspiracy against him, and the author considers that the best response to the Iraqi Prime Minister is the insistence of the youth of the protests to implement their demands for comprehensive change. 

The Iraqi prime minister also promised to reform the political system and hold early elections and other promises. In the newspaper Al- Arabi Al- Jadeed, a painting of Imad Hajjaj puts Adel Abdul-Mahdi in the form of Pinocchio in reference to his lie and the demonstrators are not convinced of his speech.

In the Middle East newspaper It also depicts an official Amjad, depicting the government's attempt to make its voice heard against the rising voices calling for change. The graphic reflects the dialogue of the deaf in Iraq.

Voices are also rising in Lebanon, shaken by protests demanding change. The Daily Star of Lebanon wrote on the cover that tens of thousands had gathered yesterday in a unit, while protesters called for a general strike and the closure of roads this morning. Protests calling for the overthrow of the government, early elections and an end to corruption and sectarianism that have ruled the country for decades are continuing, the paper said. Consultations to appoint a new prime minister are expected to begin this week.

In the newspaper Al- Gomhouria We read that, pending the invitation of President Michel Aoun to these consultations, the concerned community is studying the nature of the new government and its specifications as president and members, on the basis that what was government before the popular movement can no longer be repeated afterwards, given the recognition that this movement, which The country has shaken the whole power and the political class, and imposed a new government equation to address the state of the country.

Algerian newspapers have been following a strike by judges for days. Some newspapers reported that police and gendarmes stormed the Oran district council to open judges' offices. Syndicate judges condemned what it described as dangerous slide newspaper quoted the news paper said that the National Union of judges announced the severance of all mediation efforts and dialogue to resolve the crisis, stressing not only resume the departure of the Minister of Justice Belkacem Zgmata. The paper writes that the conflict between the Justice Department and judges is peaking.

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The Iraqi Foreign Ministry condemned what it called "aggression" and stressed that the security of diplomatic missions is a red line

Monday 4 November 2019 10:38

The burning of the Iranian consulate in Karbala on the evening of Sunday, November 3, was not surprising. The holy city of Shiites in Iraq and the world has been boiling against Tehran's influence since the protests began in early October. However, on Monday 4-11-2019 issued a statement from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry condemning what it described as "an attack on the Iranian consulate in the province of Karbala, and stressed that" the security of missions and consulates red line is not allowed to cross, " Affects the friendly and good-neighborly relations between Iraq and Iran, affirming the ministry's commitment to the inviolability of diplomatic missions guaranteed by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the need not to endanger its security.

Karbalai's anger

Karbala appeared to be very angry at Iran's influence, when thousands of its residents went out on Friday and Saturday, chanting against the IRGC's interventions and crimes in Iraq. Karbala residents say that the Iranians control their city, which includes the shrines of Hussein and Abbas, the sons of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, who are visited by millions of visitors annually, from inside and outside the country, to perform their visit.


Merchants estimate the revenues of these visits millions of dollars, which go mostly to the pockets of Iranians control the economy of the city and the movement of tourism towards its shrines in cooperation with Iraqi political parties.

Iran monopolizes the local economy

For example, Iranian companies monopolize the transfer of hundreds of thousands of Iranians a year to visit the shrines of Hussein and Abbas in Karbala, as well as monopolize the process of housing and feeding them through hotels and restaurants owned in the city, whose benefits are limited to the work of daily workers in these companies based in Tehran and Qom.

Anger against Iranian influence in Karbala culminated when Iraq's top Shiite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, hinted that Tehran's interventions in Iraqi politics were no longer acceptable. Thousands of protesters gathered on Sunday evening around the Iranian consulate in Karbala, chanting against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Quds Force commander in the Revolutionary Guards Qasem Soleimani, calling on them to stop interfering in Iraqi affairs.

Troops charged with protecting the consulate tried to disperse protesters with tear gas and batons, but the large number of demonstrators hampered security efforts.

Raise the Iraqi flag

After the demonstrators realized that the riot police were unable to keep up with them, a number of them rose to the walls of the consulate and raised the Iraqi flag after lowering the Iranian flag from its position. Moments later, fire broke out inside the consulate. As the flames appeared from behind the concrete walls surrounding the consulate building, a number of protesters launched fireworks in the sky from nearby, celebrating the process.

Security sources in Karbala told "Independent Arab" that three young men were killed at the moment of setting fire to the Iranian consulate, without disclosing the circumstances of their deaths, but activists confirmed that they were shot live from inside and outside the consulate, the moment it burned. This is the second Iranian consulate to be burned in Iraq, after the Basra consulate during demonstrations last year.

Lest the fate of the demonstrations

Activists considered what is exposed to the headquarters of diplomatic missions a dangerous indicator that could implicate the Iraqi protest movement in the problems, which may lead to divert its course. "Burning embassies is a heinous act," said journalist Mohammed al-Hijel.

"You could not stay in the yards of protesters without the crowds of peaceful demonstrators who have become a human shield and the government could not suppress you because of this shield," he told the "fanatic demonstrator." Without any cover. "

"I am not in favor of burning embassies, whether Iranian, American or Saudi," blogger Abbas al-Husseini said, adding that "storming and burning the Iranian embassy is not justified." "We are not saboteurs and we are not rabble. He concluded, "More importantly the safety of every Iraqi, because the Iraqi suffering and his right, better than a thousand consuls and an Iranian ambassador."

 

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Documents .. Committee exposes the appointments of the Council of Ministers to the general managers and special grades
{Baghdad: Euphrates News} A parliamentary committee has exposed the appointments of the cabinet in special grades.
"We were surprised by the recent decisions of the Council of Ministers on the appointment of general directors in the ministries of the state and its institutions, where we found that a large percentage of These names are far from the standards mentioned, but some of them have indicators of integrity not to mention the heterogeneity between their previous work and new responsibilities.
"These are clear indicators that confirm the existence of quotas and partisan interventions in the selection of those mentioned," he added. To the approval of the House of Representatives. "
Al-Sudani demanded the Prime Minister's Office to provide the committee with "the minutes of the joint committee formed under the chairmanship of the Office of Financial Supervision, the head of the Integrity Commission, an agency in charge of scrutinizing the nominations of directors, special grades and agents with the relevant priorities so that we can review and audit."

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Abdul Wahid Abdul - Mahdi: Your statement today shameful and silence is better
BAGHDAD (AFP) - Former MP Sarwa Abdel Wahed criticized Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's statement to protesters.
"The government statement is the least we can say that it is shameful and shameful after more than 10,000 wounded and martyrs talk about the Baghdad exhibition," Abdel Wahed said on Twitter.
"I don't know of any labs that the prime minister is talking about," she said.
"Your silence is better than your statements and speeches," he said.
In his statement, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi told the demonstrators on the occasion of the month since the exit of the largest popular demonstrations in Iraq after 2003 against corruption, quotas, deterioration of services, unemployment and other problems, he commissioned an investigation committee headed by the Minister of Health and government and non-governmental bodies to investigate the types of equipment used by security forces when Defend their positions, especially tear bombs.
He called on the people to say that it is time for life to return to normal after the disruption of interests, schools and universities and a key part of public life, and to open all markets, interests, laboratories, schools and universities.
Abdul-Mahdi said, we postponed the Baghdad International Fair for a period of time because of the situation, and delayed in the completion of the submission of the budget 2020, and many countries are concerned about the situation of the country.
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Human rights: 3 demonstrators killed and 12 injured during the events of the Iranian consulate in Karbala

Baghdad / Obelisk: The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Monday, November 4, 2019, a statement on the events of Karbala yesterday, while calling for the referral of the security element who fired directly at the demonstrators for investigation.

The UNHCR said in a statement received to the obelisk, it "monitored through its monitoring teams events that took place in the holy province of Karbala on Sunday evening, which led to a clash between security forces and demonstrators as they tried to enter the Iranian consulate, which led with great regret to the death of" 3 " Demonstrators shot live and wounded "12" demonstrators and security forces.
 
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) condemned "the continued fall of martyrs and wounded people," calling on "security forces to strictly adhere to the standards of security engagement and the non-use of live bullets and to refer people who directly shot towards the demonstrators for investigation."
 
It demanded "all the demonstrators to stay in the places allocated for the demonstrations and the sustainability of their peaceful demonstrations and not to endanger diplomatic buildings, as this is a violation of international agreements binding on Iraq," stressing the need "
 
On Sunday, angry demonstrators besieged the Iranian consulate in Karbala, burned tires near it, and put the Iraqi flag on its wall, but security forces dispersed them.

 

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Iraqi demonstrators resort to the weapon of the economy: oil and ports under siege
 

Iraqi demonstrators resort to the weapon of the economy: oil and ports under siege

 
BAGHDAD - Adel al-Nawab and Ahmad al-Naimi

November 4, 2019

 

Demonstrations in Iraq took  a new turn by protesters blocking the main roads leading to a number of oil fields and land ports with Iran , as well as the commercial port of Umm Qasr in the south of the country, in a new escalation paper against the government , where the capital Baghdad and the rest of the provinces cut off a number of important and major streets , To prevent employees from reaching their circles.

The popular protests in Iraq have entered their tenth day since resuming on October 25 after a two-week hiatus, including the cities of Baghdad, Basra, Maysan, Wasit, Babylon, Muthanna, Qadisiyah, Dhi Qar, Karbala and Najaf, with the participation of tens of thousands of Iraqis.

Although the government presented three reform packages, promises and various decisions totaling 71 different decisions, in addition to 12 decisions issued by the parliament, 5 decisions of the Supreme Judicial Council, and 3 decisions of the Presidency of the Republic, which included jobs, financial grants, distribution of residential plots, accounting for corruption, and the abolition of privileges. Senior officials have lowered their salaries, as well as promises to amend the constitution, but these promises have not succeeded in alleviating public anger at widespread corruption and worsening living conditions in the oil-rich country.

Protesters in Basra province cut off major roads leading to the ports of Umm Qasr (commercial), Khor Al-Zubair (industrial) and Abu Flus (intended for receiving general goods), fertilizer plant, liquid gas terminal and gas power station.

In Maysan province (eastern Iraq), demonstrators blocked roads leading to oil fields and to the land border crossing between Iraq and Iran.


Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Hashim al-Ani said earlier that continued protests had delayed the unloading of many shipments of rice and food at the port of Umm Qasr. Millions of dollars a day.

But Salam Smeisem, an Iraqi economist, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed that "the demonstrators went to the strongest economic weapons as the strongest steps, so everyone will try to implement the demands of the protesters."

She added that "the rising youth does not differentiate with him if Iraq does not export two million barrels of oil or more, they see that the oil money is not due to them, and does not feel an Iraqi citizen that the oil exported to him and has a right."

She continued: "Berths in the port of Faw and Umm Qasr, controlled by political parties and blocs, and divided according to quotas, and therefore should not blame young people for the closure of ports, they know the berths for those who are affiliated."

She said: "It is true that the closure of ports and oil fields will have a significant impact in Iraq from an economic point of view, but this is a conflict between the revolution of an angry people and a corrupt authority."

She added that "the closure of roads will lead to stalled work in some oil fields, and will have a rapid impact on the level of production if it continues, in addition to stop import and export from the way through the ports," noting that the roads cut and demonstration near the oil fields is a message from the demonstrators to the authorities Iraqi.


"Closing ports and oil fields will have a very significant negative economic impact in Iraq and Iraqis, and will help increase poverty," warned Hanin Kaddo, a member of parliament's Finance Committee.

"Things are now heading towards chaos, and there are no real remedies by the Iraqi government, and we are in a dead end," he said. This action is not in the interest of Iraq and the Iraqi people, and will have disastrous results on the economic situation of Iraq. "

He said a member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee that "the closure of the streets will also have an impact on the livelihood of citizens and the issue of trade and the subject of food, prices will rise, and this will affect the daily lives of citizens."

Former Minister of Transport, Kazem Fenjan Al-Hamami, said in a statement published by local Iraqi media that a gathering of farm owners scattered in the geographical area of Khor Al-Zubair area in Basra has started blockading the port of liquid gas port and may have prevented the port staff from carrying out their duties as they did. It happened in the port of Umm Qasr.

He added that the prices of domestic gas will witness an escalation, in addition to the reduction of gas supplies for the operation of power plants by a significant 80%, which leads to the deterioration of electrical services and return to the hours of programmed cutting.


The protesters' move to cut off major roads leading to oil fields and vital ports coincided with the launch of a campaign by social activists on social networking sites, called "Khalikha Takhis" to boycott Iranian goods, in protest against Iranian interference, after statements by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, describing the demonstrations as riots. .

The volume of trade exchange between Iraq and Iran to $ 12 billion annually, according to statistics of the Iraqi Ministry of Commerce for 2018, and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif announced during his visit to Iraq in January 2019, his country's intention to raise the volume of trade exchange with Iraq to $ 20 billion annually By 2020.

Iraq imports from Iran dairy products, fruits, canned food and construction materials such as cement, bricks, rebar, fertilizers, agricultural pesticides, fabrics, cars, poultry and electrical appliances, as well as petrochemicals, liquid gas and other products.

Experts said that the boycott of Iranian goods across Iraq, will be a blow to the Iranian economy exhausted mainly because of US sanctions, especially as the Iraqi market is the largest consumer market for Iranian goods in the region.

Moamen al-Zubaidi, an economist, told Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed that boycotting Iranian goods would result in significant losses to the Iranian economy if they were implemented. As a trade exchange for many goods and products.


Tehran holds the largest share of the Iraqi market, to other competitors such as China, Turkey and other countries at a time when Iraq's foreign trade is about 40 billion dollars annually, according to economist Abdul Ghaffar Daoudi.

Daoudi said that "Iran controls the Iraqi market completely through its arms, militias and ruling parties loyal to it in Baghdad, and the Iraqi market contributed to the growth of the Iranian economy over the past year, because Iranian goods do not find consumers in countries other than Iraq because of its robe."

He added that "Iran's economy and foreign trade at this particular time after the US sanctions depend entirely on the Iraqi market, and any comprehensive boycott inside Iraq will deal a fatal blow that Iran will not be able to recover from them for years, and will increase public tension in Iran inevitably, and may be exposed to unprecedented economic collapse." .

Activists strongly urged a boycott of Iranian goods, considering it an important public measure to punish Iran for its continued interventions and support the corrupt parties in Baghdad as they described. "They boycotted Iranian goods," wrote activist Caesar al-Obeidi.

The Ghaith Iraqi that "the boycott campaign came after Khamenei (Supreme Leader of Iran) demonstrations of Iraq riots and chaos.


The writer Mohsen Al-Ramli said on his official page: "Free and conscious youth are asking us to carry out a comprehensive and long-term awareness campaign to boycott Iranian goods. Electricity, construction, etc. "

Since renewed U.S. sanctions on Iran last year, following U.S. President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal in May 2018, Iran has been stepping up cooperation with several neighboring countries, led by Iraq, in an attempt to circumvent the sanctions.

Iraq is Iran's second largest trading partner after China. Iran's Assistant Foreign Minister for Economic Affairs, Gholamreza Ansari, said that half of his country's trade is with neighboring countries, adding during a seminar assessing the potential to develop economic relations with abroad, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency: "We are trying to use the national currency in trade With our neighbors, which reduces the need for bank transfers. "

Ansari added that the next priority for trade should be for easily accessible countries in terms of money transfer, transportation and shipping, and the discovery of new markets and accessible areas should be a priority for the Chamber of Commerce.


The Iraqi Ministry of Electricity announced last Friday, the completion of the synchronous linkage between the Iraqi and Iranian systems, pointing out that "the linking process has been completed, to be the first stage to make Iraq a regional hub and a global hub for the energy market in the region."

The protesters had demanded at the beginning of the demonstrations to improve public services, provide jobs, and fight corruption, before raising the ceiling of their demands to overthrow the government, after the army and security forces used excessive violence against them, which was recognized by the government, and promised to hold those responsible.

Since the protests began, Adel Abdel Mahdi's government has adopted several reform packages in several sectors, but has not satisfied the protesters who insist on overthrowing the government among many other demands.

 

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An official reveals why Sadr is traveling to Iran and what will happen in the next 72 hours

Political | 01:00 - 04/11/2019

 
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BAGHDAD - Mawazine News
, a government official revealed on Monday, the reason for the Sadr movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr to Iran and what will happen in the next 72 hours.
"The Iranian move is to ease tension between Sadr and al-Amiri and to reconcile the two, to find a way out of the crisis by agreeing on several steps, including the provision of an alternative offered by the parties as a new compromise candidate for prime minister, and the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi," the official said.
He stressed that "Sadr's departure to Iran came after the failure of Saleh's attempts to hold a meeting between him and al-Amiri in Najaf to contain the situation."
"The Iranian movement comes after the Iraqis were not able to enter their homes," he said, referring to the demonstrators' lack of conviction for reforms and promises made by the government last month

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Minister of Construction for the demonstrators: I accept your hands to keep the economic, oil and service facilities

Political | 02:31 - 04/11/2019

 
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The Minister of Construction and Housing, two banks Rikani, on Monday, a message to the demonstrators, calling on them to maintain the economic, oil and service facilities.
"The demonstrations are a legitimate right against deprivation, corruption, poor performance and a lot of failure over the past years," Rikani said in his letter to protesters in Basra province.
Addressing the protesters: "I accept your hands keep the economic and service facilities, oil and ports being the artery of the economy and represent the reputation of the country and its people can not be endangered and we need hundreds of years to restore the confidence of international companies in Basra and investment in the province, and must stay away from prejudice to oil companies and public services."

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5 martyrs by the security forces after setting fire to the Iranian consulate in Karbala

 Monday, November 04, 2019
 
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At least five martyrs were killed after special forces opened fire on protesters who surrounded the headquarters of the Iranian consulate in Karbala after midnight on Sunday, November 4, 2019.

According to videos circulating on social networking sites, riot police and other security forces used live ammunition to disperse hundreds of gatherings around the headquarters of the Iranian consulate after it caught fire.

This resulted in the fall of 5 martyrs and the injury of more than 20 people.

Karbala police chief arrived at the perimeter of the Iranian consulate with 30 police vehicles.

 

 

 

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Iraqi PM calls for end to protests, citing damage to economy

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Iraqi PM calls for end to protests, citing damage to economy
Iraqi protesters block the highway leading to Umm Qasr port during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in southern Iraq on Nov. 3, 2019. (Photo: AFP/Hussein Faleh)
 

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has called for an end to nationwide protests, which he complained are affecting the country’s economy.

In a statement his press office published on Sunday, Abdul Mahdi said the violent protests across Iraq have “shaken the political system” and achieved their purpose. He also said the demonstrations should end so that Iraq can resume its trade and economic activities.

Since Wednesday, Demonstrators have used tires, stones, and metals to block the main entrance to Iraq’s main Gulf port, Umm Qasr.

Umm Qasr receives imports of grain, vegetable oils, and sugar shipments and is one of the most significant ports in Iraq.

Read More: Protesters block Iraq’s Umm Qasr port, halting operations

“Threatening the oil interests and blocking roads leading to Iraq’s ports is causing big losses exceeding billions of dollars,” Iraq’s prime minister said on Sunday.

The statement comes amid widespread demonstrations in Iraq’s central and southern provinces that have resulted in the deaths of upwards of 250 people and thousands of injuries.

Read More: Female protester reportedly killed, 120 arrested as Iraqi unrest continues for second week

The demonstrators are calling for radical change in Iraq’s political system, which they say fails to address their needs, but, rather, serves the interests of a small governing elite.

The protests over the past month reflect widespread dissatisfaction with the economy, including high levels of unemployment, the dismal state of public services, and widespread government corruption.

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38 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

Iraqi PM calls for end to protests, citing damage to economy

8 hours ago
 
 

Iraqi PM calls for end to protests, citing damage to economy
Iraqi protesters block the highway leading to Umm Qasr port during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in southern Iraq on Nov. 3, 2019. (Photo: AFP/Hussein Faleh)
 

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi has called for an end to nationwide protests, which he complained are affecting the country’s economy.

In a statement his press office published on Sunday, Abdul Mahdi said the violent protests across Iraq have “shaken the political system” and achieved their purpose. He also said the demonstrations should end so that Iraq can resume its trade and economic activities.

Since Wednesday, Demonstrators have used tires, stones, and metals to block the main entrance to Iraq’s main Gulf port, Umm Qasr.

Umm Qasr receives imports of grain, vegetable oils, and sugar shipments and is one of the most significant ports in Iraq.

Read More: Protesters block Iraq’s Umm Qasr port, halting operations

“Threatening the oil interests and blocking roads leading to Iraq’s ports is causing big losses exceeding billions of dollars,” Iraq’s prime minister said on Sunday.

The statement comes amid widespread demonstrations in Iraq’s central and southern provinces that have resulted in the deaths of upwards of 250 people and thousands of injuries.

Read More: Female protester reportedly killed, 120 arrested as Iraqi unrest continues for second week

The demonstrators are calling for radical change in Iraq’s political system, which they say fails to address their needs, but, rather, serves the interests of a small governing elite.

The protests over the past month reflect widespread dissatisfaction with the economy, including high levels of unemployment, the dismal state of public services, and widespread government corruption.

Mahdi is a *********** seriously!! No what’s damaging the economy is Maliki and all the corrupt politicians stealing all their money period! If this thing ever gains any value I will be shocked but you can guarantee one thing it won’t be anytime soon!

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what is wrong Mahdi?.... He has been in power for one year........u think he can fix everything that quickly? ....go ahead and be prime minister over there I want to see u fix everything in one year... 

Born: January 1, 1942 (age 77 years), Baghdad, Iraq
Office: Prime Minister of Iraq since 2018
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6 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

what is wrong Mahdi?.... He has been in power for one year........u think he can fix everything that quickly? ....go ahead and be prime minister over there I want to see u fix everything in one year... 

Born: January 1, 1942 (age 77 years), Baghdad, Iraq
Office: Prime Minister of Iraq since 2018

You cant fix what you are not trying to fix. And he is still not trying to fix things because he is an Iranian puppet. He does what they tell him to do which is nothing for the Iraqi citizens. 

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The people have had enough!! Blocking the roads to the refineries and the ports is turning up the pressure big time they mean business and they will not quit until they get what they want. This could have been activated 5 years ago. Hey pick up the memo government......YOU ARE OUT OF TIME......HIT THE LITTLE RED BUTTON AND OPEN UP THE ECONOMY!!!!!

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27 minutes ago, 6ly410 said:

Really? Go back and read all the news articles... he has been pushing for economic reform since he started.... but ignore my opinion I know nothing later 

Saying and doing are two different things. The man wont even come into parliament for questioning and I wonder why

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