{"id":41778,"date":"2019-12-01T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41778"},"modified":"2019-12-01T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T11:22:10","slug":"iran-begins-registering-candidates-for-parliamentary-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=41778","title":{"rendered":"Iran begins registering candidates for parliamentary polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"85.5\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: Iran faced anger on two fronts on Saturday as demonstrators in Lebanon took to the streets of Beirut to support protesters in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\nTehran has orchestrated a violent crackdown on Iraqi protests in which more than 420 people have been killed, and its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon has been accused of complicity in attacks on protesters demonstrating there against corruption and financial hardship.<\/p>\n<p>\nDemonstrators staged a candlelit vigil outside Iraq\u2019s embassy in Beirut on Saturday to denounce the violence in Baghdad and southern Iraq. They held up photos of Iraqi protesters who have been killed, and one woman wrapped an Iraqi flag around her shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe uprising in Iraq and the uprising in Lebanon are one,\u201d said vigil organizer Layal Siblani. \u201cA protester killed there is a protester killed here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother demonstrator in Beirut said: \u201cWe have to stand in solidarity with our Iraqi counterparts who are being arrested and killed on a daily basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nElsewhere in Beirut, the mothers of activists targeted by opponents of the protests marched under banners declaring \u201cnothing divides us\u201d as they voiced their anger over violent attacks on protesters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplebox opinion\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>\nThis section contains relevant reference points, placed in (Opinion field)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nA group of mothers in Tabaris, a largely affluent Christian neighborhood, marched to Khandak El Ghamik, a poorer area with a large number of Amal Movement and Hezbollah supporters.<\/p>\n<p>\nOne woman urged residents of the area not to attack protesters. \u201cPoliticians disagree in the day and agree in the evening, and we should not be dragged into incitement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\nProtesters also organized a demonstration outside a barracks of the Internal Security Forces in Beirut, in protest at the arrest of activists.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile in Iraq protesters burned tires and surrounded a police station in the southern city of Nassiriya on Saturday. Demonstrations also continued in Baghdad, but there were fewer reports of casualties than on the previous two days.<\/p>\n<p>\nSecurity forces have used live ammunition, tear gas and stun grenades against protesters for nearly two months, and dozens have been killed in the past few days in Nassiriya and Najaf.<\/p>\n<p>\nIraq\u2019s Cabinet on Saturday approved the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, which is expected to be confirmed by Parliament on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: Iran faced anger on two fronts on Saturday as demonstrators in Lebanon took to the streets of Beirut to support protesters in Iraq. Tehran has orchestrated a violent crackdown on Iraqi protests in which more than 420 people have been killed, and its Hezbollah proxy in Lebanon has been accused of complicity in attacks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}