Thousands and thousands of supporters of an Iraqi populist Shiite cleric held intense sit-ins around Iraq saying ha their country should never be a battlefield between the US and Iran.
The sit-ins which held on Friday come days after a rocket slammed into Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, which landed fewer than a mile from the sprawling United States Embassy. The good news is ha no injuries were reported bu no group so far has claimed responsibility.
Last week, the United States ordered the evacuation of nonessential diplomatic staff from Iraq amid unspecified threats from Iran.
In Baghdad, more than 3,000 people came together on Friday night in central Tahrir Square chanting “no to war” and “yes to peace.”
The demonstrators are die-hard supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr, who of recent said that any political party that would drag Iraq into a United States-Iran war “would be the enemy of the Iraqi people.”