- Over 200 families evacuated after rising river level in eastern Iraq
#Over#families#evacuated#rising#river#easternIraq#iraq#flooding#flood#Baghdad#DiyalaRiver#Kharnabat#Baquba#Huweder#Kharnabat#AbdullahalHaiyaly#Baquba - Dozens of villages and towns have been evacuated in southern Iran as authorities issued warnings for a fresh round of flooding in the regions bordering Iraq, home to a number of rivers and dams.... http://heartofasia.af/mass-evacuations-in-iran-amid-fresh-flood-warnings/ …
- Fintribune "Flooding during the past three weeks in the west and southwest of
#Iran has not disrupted crude oil production in joint oilfields with Iraq https://financialtribune.com/articles/energy/97320/iran-iraq-joint-oilfields-spared-from-floodwaters …" RT#futurerisk - Flooding during the past three weeks in the west and southwest of
#Iran has not disrupted crude oil production in joint oilfields with Iraq https://financialtribune.com/articles/energy/97320/iran-iraq-joint-oilfields-spared-from-floodwaters … - Flooding In
#Iran Kills At Least 70, Forces Evacuation Of Thousands#Iraq http://iraq.trendolizer.com/2019/04/flooding-in-iran-kills-at-least-70-forces-evacuation-of-thousands.html … - Over 200 families evacuated after rising river level in eastern Iraq
#Over#families#evacuated#rising#river#easternIraq#iraq#flooding#flood#Baghdad#DiyalaRiver#Kharnabat#Baquba#Huweder#Kharnabat#AbdullahalHaiyaly#Baquba https://bit.ly/2KfrvpM
They ignore the flooding the way they ignore the corruption. Tomorrow, the Parliament is set to question the Minister of Electricity. The topic? Corruption?
In addition . . .
- Reliance on Baghdad decreases by the day. I'm not sure if Baghdadis are living in a their own isolated bubble, but the quality of life in the rest of Iraq is humiliating. As for concerns regarding corruption, is corruption at state level?
And there's this.
Interesting to see @Mu_AlSadr denouncing corruption terrorism in #mosul which sources attribute to security services and pmu #Iraq
Shi'ite cleric and movement leader Moqtada al-Sadr has returned to Iraq (after spending several months in Lebanon). He is again calling out the corruption in the Iraqi government. Some Arabic social media accounts are noting that he's also calling out Basra's call to become semi-independent of the Baghdad-based government -- semi-autonomy similar to the KRG.
And that might be part of his reason for calling out corruption right now. But it's also true he has repeatedly led corruption protests. Hayder al-Abadi was able to use the battle against ISIS to distract. And the latest US-installed prime minister, Adel Abdul Mahdi, has been lucky that he's had a grace period -- one that should be and appears to be over. (At his Twitter account, Mahdi -- or someone Tweeting for him -- Tweeted support for Moqtada's call to end corruption.)
If Moqtada calls for protests, there will be protests.
