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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