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“The Iraqi government is urging Americans to show restraint and avoid violence,” said a comment on social media.
“Arab states … urge the United States to respect freedom of expression,” he wrote, adding that envoys sent to the country would mediate in the search for “peaceful solutions.”
One commentator called on the US National Guard to “respect the human rights of the protesters.”
Most Facebook users reworked the slogans of the months-long Iraqi anti-government protest and published them in the play “America rebel.”
In Iraq, anti-government protests began in October 2019. Outraged by government corruption and inequality, Iraqis had for years occupied Baghdad’s Tahrid (Liberation) Square, from which they were expelled by the military in last october.
An Iraqi called the events in Washington a “conspiracy by the Mexican embassy.” Another wrote: “The attackers, who coordinate their actions with the Argentine embassy, are sowing chaos.”
Some recalled the 2016 protest by populist Shiite cleric Moqtad Sadr, who had pitched a tent at the Houses of Parliament in Baghdad’s strictly guarded “green zone”.
“The only thing missing from this popular American movie is a clergyman, a tent and a rug,” wrote one commenter.
Another took a photo of Sadr sitting in a tent, replacing his face with a photo of Trump.
Another Iraqi posted a photo of a protester sitting in the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nensi Pelouzi, and recalled Abu Samra, a man immortalized in the seat of the Iraqi parliament when protesters stormed the Iraqi parliament.
“Abu Samra from Texas,” wrote the commenter.
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