“A rocket fell in front of the Iraqi parliament building,” the security forces announced, while a meeting was being held inside the building.
Three rockets fell today on Green Belt of the Iraqi capital while the parliament was in session, injuring seven members of the security forcesaccording to an announcement by the security services, in the first such attack that has occurred in two months.
“A rocket fell in front of the Iraqi parliament building,” said the statement by the security forces, which initially said four were injured.
“The number of injured among the security forces has increased to seven,” the announcement underlines.
No information was immediately provided about the perpetrators of the attack.
The three rockets landed in different areas of the Green Zone, an area that houses western embassies and government agencieswhich is often targeted by rockets or sometimes hit by angry protesters.
Iraq has been mired for several months in serious political crisiswhich sometimes takes on such proportions that it develops into violent episodes.
The deadlock remains unmoved, while political barons clash after the parliamentary elections in October 2021 over the name of the next prime minister and how to appoint him.
Strong Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr is calling for the immediate dissolution of parliament and early parliamentary elections. Opposite, the Coordination Group, an alliance of pro-Iranian Shiite factions, wants a government formed before any elections.
On August 29, tensions came to a head when Sadr’s supporters clashed with the army and men from Hasd al-Shaabi, a coalition of pro-Iranian paramilitaries embedded in the regular army who are politically opposed to Sadr’s followers. More than 30 Sadrists were killed in these clashes.
Today’s rocket attacks coincided with a parliamentary session in which 222 MPs, out of 235 who voted, voted against the resignation of the parliament speaker, the powerful Mohammed al-Halbousi.
Hundreds of Sadr’s supporters demonstrated in a square in central Baghdad, denouncing the holding of this parliamentary session, the first to be held since the August 29 violence.
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