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Iraqi authorities cut off internet in many cities & dispatched a large number of forces to end the protests "by any means."

Reports indicate at least six dead & over 100 injured in Baghdad alone.

This protester says the world let us down.
Baghdad, #Iraq
Iraqis are posting images of masked men who opened direct fir using live bullets on demonstrators.
Some sources say these men belong to #Iran's IRGC Quds Force.
Basra, southern #Iraq
Relentless demonstrators are braving all odds & crackdown measures, remaining in the streets & squares, refusing to give up.
#IraqProtests
Karbala, southern #Iraq
Scenes of security forces resorting to brute measures against demonstrators who are merely holding flags.
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