The US Foreign Policy Magazine has questioned why protests against Iraq's rule continue despite the government's promise to hold early elections. The Washington Post also said the protests were the largest in decades.

US newspapers, magazines, and websites continued to cover and comment on the Iraqi protests. Foreign policy said protesters had many demands other than elections, including the removal of political elites and powers that came to power in the years after the 2003 US invasion, which the vast majority of Iraqis are corrupt and subject to Such as the United States and Iran.

The magazine pointed to the atmosphere of protests pervaded by singing and a spirit of solidarity, and the installation of drivers of vehicles "Tuk Tuk" heroes.

Protests are different from previous ones
The magazine said that most of the Shiite protesters in cities and towns in the south and center of the country, which threatens the status of Iran as a defender of Shiites.

The Washington Post pointed out that these protests are the largest in decades, and that they threaten Baghdad and Tehran together, adding that the streets of Baghdad is not alien to power struggles, but these crowds are different this time, and it represents the largest popular movement in the modern history of Iraq, a generation New grew up in the shadow of the US invasion, and under politicians from Baghdad and Tehran now found themselves on the defensive.

She pointed to a banner held high in Baghdad's central square reading "To the generations of the sixties and seventies, we encourage you," pointing out that these protests are new in everything.

Volunteer Barber in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on November 5 (Anatolia)

Threat to the equation of governance
Hareth Hassan, a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for Near East Studies, said the most important thing these protests do is threaten the sectarian equation that has reduced Iraqis to their ethnic and religious identities.

Iran, fearful of wiping out its influence, intervened to impose a brutal response to the protests, the paper said, adding that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani flew to Baghdad at the end of last month to confirm that force and decisiveness were needed. .

It said Tehran had pressed Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, who had prepared his resignation, to give up his resignation and convinced him that the protests were a foreign plot run by the United States and Israel.

No to the militias and religious doctrines
It quoted a 19-year-old protester, whose first name was Mohamed, as saying they wanted a government free of militias and religious doctrine;

On the reluctance of Iraqis in the west and north of the country to participate in the protests, the newspaper said they believe that the government will use their participation to say they want to return fighters of the Islamic State.

The Washington Post continued to talk about the Iraqi protests, saying it surprised the political elites and many Iraqis.

Concerning Iran's fear of these protests, the Washington Post said Tehran regards Abdul Mahdi's government as its own and believes it has for the first time succeeded in controlling decision-making, so it does not want to lose that government easily.