Iraq: Anti-Government Protesters Set Fire to Iran Consulate
11 May 2021
Anti-government protesters in the central Iraqi city of Karbala set fire to the outer gates of the city’s Iranian consulate on Sunday after unidentified gunmen killed an Iraqi activist in Karbala earlier the same day.
“Some 300 protesters headed to the Iranian consulate building [on May 9] with the intention of storming it,” leaders of Iraq’s two-year-long anti-government protest movement and local police in Karbala told the Middle East Eye (MEE).
“Young people have gathered in front of the [Karbala] governorate building in the city centre and blocked main roads with burning tyres, while a group of them went to the Iranian consulate to burn it,” Ahmed al-Banaa, a friend of the activist assassinated on May 9, Ihab al-Wazni, told MEE on Sunday.
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Mourners attend a funeral of Iraqi civil society activist Ehab al-Wazni, who was killed by unidentified gunmen, in Kerbala, Iraq May 9, 2021. Reuters pic
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KARBALA, May 10 An Iraqi journalist was in intensive care after being shot in the head early Monday, doctors said, only 24 hours after a leading anti-government activist was killed.
Anti-corruption campaigner Ehab al-Wazni was shot dead early Sunday in Karbala, sending protest movement supporters onto the streets to demand an end to such bloodshed and official impunity.
Wazni had led protests in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala, where pro-Tehran armed groups hold major sway.