Protesters had torched the Iranian consulate in that city the previous night. Another 35 protesters have been killed by security forces in separate demonstrations in Nasiriyah and Baghdad since Wednesday evening. Security forces were heavily deployed around main government buildings and religious institutions Thursday morning. Al-Sadr, who has supported the protests, also categorically denied that his supporters were involved in the attack against the Iranian consulate in Najaf. In Basra, security forces were deployed in the city’s main roads to prevent protesters from staging sit-ins, with instructions to arrest demonstrators if they tried to block roads.

Source: Fox News November 28, 2019 20:48 UTC