Protesters in Iraq’s Shi’ite holy city of Najaf have moved against the Iranian consulate a few times in recent weeks, and did so again on Wednesday, burning the building entirely to the ground. Iranian staff were unharmed, as they’d fled out the back door before the fire began.
At least one protester was confirmed killed and 35 others were wounded when Iraqi security forces opened fire with live ammunition on the demonstrators. Officials say it was to keep them from entering the consulate.
No one entered, but the protesters managed to scale the building, remove the Iranian flag and replace it with an Iraqi flag, then burn the building outright. Police have now opposed a city-wide curfew.
A lot of protester anger has been directed at the Iranians in recent weeks amid reports that the Iranian government wants the current Iraqi government to survive, and to reject protester demands for major reforms and early elections. One of the major protester grievances is that the government is too beholden to foreign powers, and these reports only add to the sense that the future of Iraq is being decided elsewhere.
An important religious site for Shi’ites, Najaf was the home of two consulates, the Iranian and the Bahraini. There is no sign Iranian diplomatic posts elsewhere in Iraq have been targeted as of yet.
CIA funded Protesters Burn Down Iranian Consulate in Southern Iraq.
CIA, spy agencies ordered attack on Iran consulate in Najaf: Analysthttps://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/28/612308/CIA-Iran-consulate-Iraq-Najaf-attack
Iran arrests eight people linked to CIA during recent riots
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/27/612291/Iran-Intelligence-Ministry-protest-riot-United-States-CIA-
JB, the first link is wrong and doesn’t work
Here it is
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/28/612308/CIA-Iran-consulate-Iraq-Najaf-attac
probably true!!
“As Slovenian philosopher and critical theorist Slavoj Zizek once said:
“The true victory (the true ‘negation of the negation’) occurs when the
enemy talks your language.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/language-imperialism-concepts-and-civilization-china-versus-the-west/28940
Its remarkable how the Iranians have fallen into the same type of propaganda trap the Chinese fell into in Hong Kong, taking the blame for intolerable local conditions caused by Western imperialism.
Had Tehran not been in Iraq, just as if Beijing not been in Hong Kong, the occupying Western power would be taking the heat for neoliberal crony capitalist corruption.
In Iraq’s case, the U.S. should be clearly in charge, but the ‘Shia crescent’ narrative dominates, implicating Iran in fostering Iraqi corruption while Western D.S. forces operate in the shadows. In Hong Kong the British would have been far more willing ‘bad cop’ partners to the U.S. shadow ‘good cop’.
Hybrid warfare at its best. The Western operatives and their agents got both the indigenous resistance and their foreign sponsor to oppose one another, and speak the Western message instead of their own.
That was an excellent article, Brockland, but I’m thinking you misread the main point.
“The “barbarians” always had superior weapons and technology, but, as Gu Hongming in 1920 noted, lacked true human intelligence. How’s that? Well, it’s a bit like Star Trek wisdom: If prehistoric humanity evolved from the beasts, then the most advanced human societies would be the least physically aggressive ones, no?”
Certainly we are the “barbarians” and have the superior weapons, but we haven’t even come close to making the jump to being an “advanced human society.” Problem is, we have nukes, and that may preclude any advancement in a matter of hours. Hopefully, “other-worldly agents” will prevent us from doing that, but that is a matter faith, not logic. Heaven help us, it’s the only hope we have.
Thought tools for overcoming propaganda barriers like higher morality are from a warfighting perspective the discrete lesson of the article. What ‘true human intelligence’ is, is a subjective distraction.
Zizek would recognize what Gu’s confirmation bias overlooks; that Chinese have no lock on true human intelligence. No culture does. All cultures are peers in idiocracy whatever their outward affectations.
The Qing Dynasty of Gu Hongming’s era was also the worst in Chinese history. While hardly exemplars of Chinese ‘true human intelligence’ – save perhaps that China survived them – the Qing were a blessing for Western invasions of Asia and fondly remembered as the way Chinese should be for the West.
Aggressive war is not a contest of ‘true human intelligence’, just the narrow spectrum of intelligences relevant to winning wars.
The Green ecological movement, for example, should have no shortage of ‘true human intelligence’. Yet Greens are totally captured by disaster capitalism. Iron dusting the oceans is the easy solution for excess CO2. However, if the global ecosystem is allowed to crash from the oceans up, the globalist conquest equivalent of killing buffalo to starve Indians, they game blamelessness and pretend clean hands to a dirty deed.
Like other progressive malfunctions, Green exceptionalism doesn’t even try to hide that naked tax grabs and moral panics for political power aren’t real solutions to actual problems.
Divine intervention is unlikely. The late Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time’ novels, likened the Creator of worlds to a prolific gardener of flowers. A gardener does not weep over a fallen bloom, but moves on.
CIA Special Ops protestors burn Iranian..,
trouble in Iraq – look to the US and the CIA as the spoilers and instigators
Elijah always has some good commentary at his website
https://ejmagnier.com/