{"id":4822,"date":"2022-08-31T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2023-03-24T16:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T16:38:42","slug":"iraq-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2022\/08\/31\/iraq-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1564677236871118850.html\">Sajad Jiyad, Twitter\/Threadreader, What Happened in Baghdad? (thread)<\/a> interesting thread\/opinion piece<br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-62713026\">Raffi Berg, BBC News, Buildings stormed after Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi political leader, retires<\/a> &#8220;Mr Sadr&#8217;s announcement comes two days after he called for all parties and figures involved in political life following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq to quit.&#8221; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av-embeds\/62713026\/vpid\/p0cx3q55<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chaos in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Iraq?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Iraq<\/a> \u00f0\u0178\u2021\u00ae\u00f0\u0178\u2021\u00b6 as HUNDREDS of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Muqtada?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Muqtada<\/a> al-Sadr supporters take to the street in protest of his resignation from politics, STORMING the presidential palace in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Baghdad?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Baghdad<\/a>, forcing Iraqi \u00f0\u0178\u2021\u00ae\u00f0\u0178\u2021\u00b6 authorities to announce a curfew in all of the city. 1\/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aYOOEJaA4Z\">pic.twitter.com\/aYOOEJaA4Z<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Dylan Frank (@DylanFrank21) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DylanFrank21\/status\/1564278461203718149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a protest looks a lot like a pool party\u2026<br><br>Supporters of Iraqi populist leader Moqtada al-Sadr swim as they protest inside the Republican Palace in the Green Zone, in Baghdad, Iraq August 29, 2022. REUTERS\/Ahmed Saad <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/44z6WYYbPU\">pic.twitter.com\/44z6WYYbPU<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Phil Stewart (@phildstewart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/phildstewart\/status\/1564251581821886465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Sajad Jiyad, Twitter\/Threadreader, What Happened in Baghdad? (thread) interesting thread\/opinion piece Raffi Berg, BBC News, Buildings stormed after Moqtada al-Sadr, Iraqi political leader, retires &#8220;Mr Sadr&#8217;s announcement comes two days after he called for all parties and figures involved in political life following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq to quit.&#8221; https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av-embeds\/62713026\/vpid\/p0cx3q55 Chaos in #Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,163],"tags":[300,343],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iraq","category-iraq-internet","tag-iraq","tag-muqtada-al-sadr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4823,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}