Iraqi protests demand jobs, end to Tehran intervention

By Barbara Graham
October 10, 2019

Protesters in Baghdad Oct. 1, one of many actions across southern Iraq. Working people have used opening of political space with the defeat of Islamic State to press demands for jobs, services, for the fall of the government and for Tehran’s hated militias to leave the country.

Protesters in Baghdad Oct. 1, one of many actions across southern Iraq. Working people have used opening of political space with the defeat of Islamic State to press demands for jobs, services, for the fall of the government and for Tehran’s hated militias to leave the country.