Twilight News / officials said on Saturday that the protesters are demanding government reforms cut off the road to the southern port of Umm Qasr of goods which led to the disruption of activities at the port, which receives grain shipments and heavy equipment used in the oil industry. Said Anmar net spokesman General Company for Ports of Iraq that dozens of protesters who blocked the main gates of the port since Friday morning camped out during the night and refused to allow trucks to cross and prevented staff from entering the facility.
Safi said the security source said security forces keen to keep the protesters from the port, but did not dispersed, as reported by Reuters and seen by Twilight News.
Thousands of Iraqis protested on Friday in Baghdad and the southern Iraqi cities to demand the reform of the judiciary and the parliament and local government bodies.
And it helped the protests that began last month due to power outages under severe heatwave in the so-called prime minister Haider al-Abadi comprehensive reforms campaign.
The initiative is the largest reform movement of al-Abadi to tighten his grip on power even with the fall of almost one-third of Iraq in the hands of militants organize Daash The central government is facing an economic crisis of the collapse of the price of its oil exports.
Abadi and sacked a third of his government last week reduced the number of ministries to 22 positions to abolish or merge ministries.
Abadi canceled earlier in the three posts of Vice-President and reduced security arrangements and other benefits for politicians and encouraged investigations into corruption and the granting of the same conservative officials in the governorates and isolate the power.
The moves come which aims to eradicate corruption and inefficiency, which critics say have triggered in turn Iraq into N almost to rule a country in the wake of an appeal of the Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani beaten with an iron fist against corruption.
Alsissata endorsed on Friday Abadi reforms and said it should focus on the judiciary.
Sistani said in his sermon that transported his spokesman Ahmad net "has to be emphasized that the reform steps should be done in accordance with legal procedures until the field to those affected by them do not stay to lodge complaints to the courts to invalidate the pretext of violating the Constitution or the law turning these steps to ink on paper."
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Thousands of Iraqis protested on Friday in Baghdad and the southern Iraqi cities to demand the reform of the judiciary and the parliament and local government bodies.
And it helped the protests that began last month due to power outages under severe heatwave in the so-called prime minister Haider al-Abadi comprehensive reforms campaign.
The initiative is the largest reform movement of al-Abadi to tighten his grip on power even with the fall of almost one-third of Iraq in the hands of militants organize Daash The central government is facing an economic crisis of the collapse of the price of its oil exports.
Abadi and sacked a third of his government last week reduced the number of ministries to 22 positions to abolish or merge ministries.
Abadi canceled earlier in the three posts of Vice-President and reduced security arrangements and other benefits for politicians and encouraged investigations into corruption and the granting of the same conservative officials in the governorates and isolate the power.
The moves come which aims to eradicate corruption and inefficiency, which critics say have triggered in turn Iraq into N almost to rule a country in the wake of an appeal of the Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani beaten with an iron fist against corruption.
Alsissata endorsed on Friday Abadi reforms and said it should focus on the judiciary.
Sistani said in his sermon that transported his spokesman Ahmad net "has to be emphasized that the reform steps should be done in accordance with legal procedures until the field to those affected by them do not stay to lodge complaints to the courts to invalidate the pretext of violating the Constitution or the law turning these steps to ink on paper."
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