Iraqi Women Flood Streets to Show Solidarity with Protesters

A massive number of Iraqi women on Thursday took to streets nationwide to express their complete solidarity with the Iraqi protesters and prove their never-ending role in the Iraqi revolution.

Powerful footage went viral on social media, showing Al-Tahrir Square crowded with female protesters in an all-women march.

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The Iraqi females are fighting for a modern, independent nation. For decades the country has been brutalized by dictatorship, war, corruption, and unemployment.

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Anti-government protests have been ongoing in Baghdad and other major cities since 1st October. According to Iraq's High Commission of Human Rights, more than 600 people have so been killed and over 25,000 more suffered injuries.

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Iraq is facing its biggest crisis since the military defeat of the ISIS in 2017. A mostly Shi’ite popular uprising in Baghdad and the south challenges the country’s mainly Iran-backed Shi’ite Muslim ruling elite.

The country has been thrown into further disarray since the assassination of Iranian military mastermind Qassem Soleimani in a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3. Iran responded with missile attacks on bases hosting U.S. forces, pushing the region to the brink of an all-out conflict.

Pro-Iran politicians have tried to use those events to shift the focus away from popular discontent with their grip on power and toward anti-American rallies and demands for the withdrawal of U.S. troops.

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