Why do the demonstrators of Iraq raise banners against Argentina?

The origin of the story

• Observers say that at a time when an Iranian smuggler is arrested almost daily on the Iraqi border, Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi says that the drugs come from “Argentina.”
• Abdul-Mahdi appeared at a press conference on June 3, speaking about drugs, to say that “they come from Argentina to Arsal, and then Syria and Iraq,” and all the way to their trafficking networks.
• Observers say that the anti-Iran Iraqis, who are aware that Abdul-Mahdi has avoided mentioning Iran in promoting drugs, have become scarce by using “Argentina” to refer to Iran.

Protesters angry at “Buenos Aires”

• In the protest square in Najaf, a major stronghold of Shiites in Iraq, a protester stands with a placard demanding the “Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Argentina” not to interfere in Iraqi affairs.
• While another criticizes in Baghdad, “Argentine Messi” rules the decisions of the “Barcelona team”, as an expression of Iran’s rule in Iraq.
• Two days ago, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recommended “those who are keen on Iraq and Lebanon to address the riots and preserve security gains”, while accusing “America, Israel and European countries of interfering in Iraqi affairs.”
• Khamenei’s speech sparked outrage among the protesters, who condemned this intervention on the day after the speech, and chanted slogans demanding “Iran’s exit from Iraq.”

Sistani rejects regional intervention

• Ali al-Sistani, the supreme Shiite authority in Najaf, said in a statement read by his representative in Karbala during Friday sermon, Ahmed Al-Safi, that “respecting the will of the Iraqis in defining the political and administrative system of their country through conducting a general referendum on the constitution and periodic elections for the parliament is the principle that I abide by Religious reference and confirmed it since the change of the previous regime. “
• Al-Sistani: “Today, the Marjaiya confirms that reform, even if it is an imperative, as was discussed more than once – except that the necessary reform and it must be carried out in this regard is also mandated to choose the Iraqi people, with all its spectrum and colors, from the far to the extreme of the country, not to any person or A group or entity with a specific direction or any regional or international party to confiscate the will of the Iraqis in that and impose its opinion on them.
• Al-Sistani: “We appeal to all parties to think about the present and future of Iraq, and transient emotions or private interests do not prevent them from taking the right decision in this regard, which is in the interest and goodness of this country.”
• A number of Iraqi activists and journalists considered that the reference of Marjaiya was intended for the Iranian guide, and what he recently said about the demonstrations in Iraq and Lebanon.

Irony in many forms

• The Iraqi protests were accompanied by a wave of irony and daily celebrations, and appeared in the protesters ’banners and slogans, as they appeared in the daily parties and dancing in the protest squares.
• The demonstrators called the name “Mount Uhud” on the Turkish restaurant, which overlooks the green, which is a building left since 2003 and rises to several floors, and they established electricity in it, and a number of them took it as their residence during the sit-ins in Tahrir Square in central Baghdad.

• The demonstrators carried out a demonstration of a force they called “cologne”, which is the name given to the “goalkeepers” in the Iraqi dialect, and the task of this group is to confront the tear gas bombs and smoke, with the paws of cloth wrapped by members of the band on their hands.
• They installed headphones and amplifiers to speak to the “riot” forces calling them tear gas, and called on them to “correct and ignite the atmosphere” because they “got bored over the days.”
• This comes at a time when the death toll from the demonstrations rose to 250 dead and more than 11,000 injured, according to the Independent Commission for Human Rights of the Iraqi parliament.

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