For 2d day in a row, 4 missiles fell near the Iraqi Green Zone

Despite the relative calm that the Iraqi capital witnessed last night the police announced today, thursday, that four missiles were fired from eastern Baghdad and landed near the heavily fortified Green Zone, which includes government buildings and foreign missions, as political unrest intensified.

Two police officers said there were no immediate reports of casualties from the rockets, and no group had claimed responsibility, Reuters reported.

This came, after a similar attack yesterday, Wednesday, injuring seven members of the security forces when three shells landed amid the US embassy sounding sirens, in what appears to be a new escalation of the political rivalry that has taken place in the country for months.

Yesterday, the capital witnessed severe tension, after thousands of demonstrators, supporters of the Sadrist movement, Muqtada al-Sadr, took to the squares, coinciding with a parliament session to discuss the resignation of Muhammad al-Halbousi, an ally of al-Sadr. Clashes between security and demonstrators injured 133 people.

It is noteworthy that these developments come as Iraq has witnessed, since the early parliamentary elections, which took place on the tenth of October 2021, a complete political paralysis, which has worsened even more since July 2022, with the two sides of the most prominent dispute taking to the street and their sit-in in the center of Baghdad (Al-Sadr and the Coordination Framework).

The dispute reached its climax with the Sadrist movement's demand, more than two months ago, to dissolve Parliament and hold early legislative elections in light of its opponents' rejection of this approach, and their insistence on forming a government with their candidate before any new elections.

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