27 Iraqi protesters killed over 24 hours
Security forces shot dead 40 anti-government protesters during 24 hours of bloodshed amid spiraling violence in the Iraqi capital and in the country’s south, security and medical officials said Thursday, one day after an Iranian consulate was torched.
The escalating violence and heavy response against demonstrators by a largely Iranian-backed government threatened to intensify tensions, especially if efforts to implement electoral and anti-corruption reforms fail to placate protesters.An anti-government protester uses a slingshot to lob stones at Iraqi riot police during clashes in Baghdad.
In Najaf, five protesters were fatally shot and 32 wounded when security forces opened fire to prevent them from torching a central mosque named after the father of a prominent political leader, officials said.The deaths came after a day after protesters burned Iran’s consulate in Najaf. It was one of the worst attacks targeting Iranian interests in the country since the anti-government protests erupted two months ago.
Iran has called for a “responsible, strong and effective” response to the burning of its consulate, Abbas Mousavi, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said in statements to the official Islamic Republic News Agency.
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