Irans Supreme Court has agreed to retry three men over links to last years fuel protests and whose death sentences have been suspended. Upon a decree by the head of the Supreme Court, the three convicts, Amir-Hossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi, and Saeed Tamjidi will be tried again in another court branch. They had been found guilty of involvement ...

MNA Iranian consulate in Najaf has resumed its activities after about two months of a halt due to the ransack and arson attacks by rioters in November. Irans consul-general in Najaf, Hamid Makarem, said the mission resumed its activities on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. According to him, the consulate currently ...

Reuters |John Davison, Aziz El Yaakoubi: Tens of thousands of Iraqis rallied in central Baghdad on Friday calling for the expulsion of U.S. troops, but the protest mostly dissipated after a few hours despite a clerics call for a million strong turnout. Populist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr convened the march after the U.S. killing of an Iranian general ...

Reuters |Aziz El Yaakoubi, Ahmed Rasheed: Iranian-backed Shia factions have exhorted Iraqis to turn out for a million-strong march on Friday aimed at whipping up anti-American sentiment as the United States struggle with Iran plays out on the streets of Baghdad. Those behind the rally have two goals in mind - to pressure Washington to pull its troops ...

Press TV - Protesters have returned to the streets in cities across Iraq, sealing roads with burning tires and threatening further escalation at a time of difficult economic conditions. Demonstrations were reported across Baghdad, the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, as well as the western cities of Nasiriyah, Diwaniyah, Kut, and Wasit on Sunday....

Reuters - The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said on Wednesday that all public consular operations were suspended, a day after Iraqi people stormed its outer perimeter, setting fires, throwing rocks and smashing surveillance cameras. Due to militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound, all public consular operations are suspended until further notice. ...

The Guardian | Julian Borger: Mobbing of US embassy after US strikes on state-sanctioned militia show Americas plan of maximum pressure only added to chaos The mobbing of a US embassy has historically served as an emblem of America in decline, so the scenes around the embattled mission in Baghdad are a fitting end to the decade. Tuesdays events ...

Reuters - Thousands of protesters and militia fighters gathered on Tuesday outside the main gate of the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad to condemn air strikes on bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq. U.S. forces carried out air strikes on Sunday against the Kataib Hezbollah militia in response to the killing of a U.S. civilian contractor ...

Press TV - Iraqi resistance groups have denounced President Barham Salihs resignation as a violation of the constitution and have accused him of caving in to pressure from the United States. The groups said the president, by resigning, had effectively refused to carry out his legal duty of designating the candidate nominated by the parliaments largest ...

The National - Iraqi President Barham Salih has handed his resignation to parliament in the face of a political crisis amid nationwide anti-government protests, Iraqi media reported. Officials in Baghdad were not available for comment when contacted by The National, but several major news sites in Iraq said that he has handed his resignation to ...

Tasnim Iraq's top Shiite cleric called for the speedy formation of a government and early elections as ongoing political wrangling caused Parliament to miss a deadline to name the next premier. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in his weekly sermon delivered by a representative in the holy southern city of Najaf on Friday, called for political blocs ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Seyed Ali Mousavi Khalkhali: What we witnessed in Iraq on Thursday was nothing but a free fall of morality. Public lynching of a 16-year old while the crowd and security forces were standing by reveals nothing but the free fall of moral values. To drag a young man out of his house because he wants to get rid of loitering thugs drinking ...

Iranian Diplomacy - Under the Iraqi constitution, the president must ask the grand coalition in the parliament to nominate a new candidate, which usually takes some time. Although Iraqi political groups have always needed a lot of consultations to make the final decision, it seems even more difficult to agree on a candidate, especially as there ...

MNA The vice-chairman of Parliament National Security Committee said Mon. that in session the recent developments in Iraq were discussed with the participation of Iran consulate general in Iraqi holy city of Najaf Hamid Makarem Shirazi. The vice-chairman of Parliament National Security Committee Mohammad Mahdi Boroumandi said that in todays session ...

Press TV - Iraqis have taken to the streets of the capital, Baghdad, in a show of support for the countrys religious authority, who has demanded peaceful anti-government protesters distance themselves from saboteurs. The demonstrators marched to Baghdads iconic TahrirSquare on Thursday, demanding that non-peaceful protesters be sidelined duringthe ...

Sputnik - The Iranian consulate building in Najaf was set on fire several times last month amid protests that rocked the south of Iraq. An attack on Iran's consulate in Najaf showed signs of being organised and was not carried out by Iraqi demonstrators, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei said. "According to our information, the attack on ...

TASS - Russias Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya has warned against attempts to draw Iraq into confrontation with Iran. "We are worried over possible negative impact on the political situation in Iraq as a result of attempts to fan tensions around Iran," Nebenzya said at a UN Security Council meeting on the situation ...

Bloomberg | Bobby Ghosh: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been here before. Fifteen years ago, after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq had toppled the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the countrys senior-most cleric helped guide his people toward a system of representative government. Now, having himself helped to topple the latest iteration of that government,...

AP Anti-government protesters burned an Iranian consulate in southern Iraq for a third time on Tuesday, as the countrys political leaders continued talks over selecting a new prime minister following weeks of widespread unrest. Five rockets landed inside Ain al-Asad airbase, a sprawling complex in Western Anbar which hosts U.S. forces, without ...

The Wall Street Journal | Isabel Coles and Ghassan Adnan: Protesters say they will settle for no less than sweeping away the entire political class The Iraqi Parliament accepted Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdis resignation on Sunday, posing a major challenge for Iraqs fractious political class, which must now agree on a candidate that satisfies ...