Thousands of people have staged mass rallies in several Iraqi cities to express their firm solidarity with the Iranian nation in the wake of the ongoing US-Israeli onslaught against the Islamic Republic.
The Saturday rallies were called by influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and were in condemnation of the imposed war against Iran, as well as vicious attacks on Lebanon and positions of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) across Iraq.
In the capital Baghdad, demonstrators converged on the iconic Tahrir Square and voiced their outright rejection of any normalization with the occupying Israeli regime, as they shouted slogans against the policies of the Washington and Tel Aviv regimes.
The participants also stressed the need to safeguard regional peace and to put an immediate end to armed conflicts.
Elsewhere in the provinces of Misan and Dhi Qar, protesters censured the ongoing US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and other countries in the region, and highlighted the importance of maintaining stability in the West Asia region.
Thousands of people also took to the streets in the city of Mosul and denounced acts of aggression being perpetrated by the US and Israel throughout the region.
The rallies have marked an intensification of regional tensions have markedly intensified over the past few weeks in the wake of the large-scale and unprovoked military campaign against Iran, and raised concerns about their further escalation.
On March 30, Qadr urged Iraqis from all walks of life to take part en masse in nationwide rallies in protest at US-Israeli strikes.
The United States and Israel initiated an imposed war against Iran on February 28, assassinating Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders despite indirect Tehran-Washington negotiations on Iran's peaceful nuclear program.
In response, Iranian Armed Forces have carried out waves of retaliatory missile and drone operations against US interests across West Asia and Israeli positions in the occupied territories.
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