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  • It's a protest.

  • A party, a new generation, challenging Iraq's corruptible politicians in the ways of the past.

  • Appearance didn't have the chance to to go here and say We need our over right because they were either get killed or imprisoned, tortured.

  • But Wei had the chance.

  • We must not lose it.

  • What do young people want?

  • Freedom won freedom.

  • I don't have any freedom here.

  • I want to live my life.

  • I want to leave the woman's.

  • I want respects and where would I want?

  • And and still to hear my voice?

  • No, no one him of us here but religious groups and militia, their flags festooning Baghdad control Iraq's politicians who've let the country become a battlefield.

  • The Iran and the U.

  • S.

  • A.

  • It's nearly 17 years since the statue of Saddam Hussein was pulled down right here.

  • But only now is this area here Do Square being redeveloped.

  • In that time, Iraq has bean tourney between Iran on the one side and the US on the other.

  • But increasing the Iraqis were saying, enough!

  • We want our country back.

  • Power cable!

  • Zara's tangled is politics.

  • 1/4 of the gas needed for Iraq summer electricity supply comes from Iran.

  • If the Americans refused to renew a sanctions waiver next month, part of the country will go.

  • Dog of end of the day.

  • The United States needs to understand that Iraq shares Ah, a long history with the Iran.

  • There is a social fabric that ties the two countries there.

  • There are 100 as 1400 kilometers off geographic borders.

  • There are cultural ties and so on.

  • One can not press up with the press of a button or a decision or executive order or something like that.

  • To cut all these ties, its geography, you cannot change this politics contained but geography that will remain for millennia.

  • General Mohandas, the head of the Iraqi militia killed by the Americans alongside the Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani, just near Baghdad airport.

  • They have their supporters amongst militiamen who fought against the Islamic state with Iranian backing, but who don't want to disband us.

  • They'll lose their salaries.

  • Nothing is going to change whether they were killed or not.

  • If two Mohandes have gone, 1000 more will come.

  • Qassem Suleimani has gone so unused to the Manny will rise.

  • Militia backed by Iran ransacked this TV station last October, forcing it off there.

  • The owner sees the continued presence of U.

  • S forces as essential protection.

  • Leon a lot off.

  • Three conditions aren't right.

  • We need a strong government.

  • But this government doesn't have the will.

  • It's weak.

  • For now.

  • Our government belongs to political parties that take their orders from regional countries.

  • At this time, we cannot say bye bye to America If we don't have the political will to get rid of other influences inside Iraq, new buildings are going up all over Baghdad.

  • The city looks and feels so much better than it did a few years ago on the Carajo, the main shopping street.

  • They used to be car bombs every day.

  • It's peaceful now because the Americans and the Iranians both fought the Islamic state.

  • But today Iraq is one more than the absence of terror.

  • Of course, there is a big issue because Americans to fight off pressure.

  • Iran and Iraq is caught right in the middle off it.

  • But currently the primary goal off Iraqis and what Iraq needs is to rebuild the state.

  • The root cause off the problem is we have a weak state, weak state institutions, weak army, weak state bureaucracy, lots of corruption.

  • That is the real course.

  • If you resolve that, then we can keep a good balance between Iran and America.

  • In the protest camp, they've made memorials for the martyrs.

  • More than 500 protesters killed by men in black balaclavas militia may be paid by Qassem Soleimani, despite everything they live off, have the vision of a better Iran.

It's a protest.

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