2015–2018 Iraqi protests

2015–2018 Iraqi protests
2015–2018 Iraqi protests
Part of Second Arab Spring
	Scenes from the streets of Iraq during demonstrations across the country, 11 March 2016
Date	July 2015 – December 2018
Location	Iraq
Caused by	Unemployment; ; Poor basic services, like: Lack of fresh water,; Lack of reliable electricity; ; State corruption; Muhasasa quota agreements; Iranian infiltration; Oil companies making large profits in Iraq while Iraqis stayed poor;
Goals	Competent and non-corrupt government
Methods	Political demonstrations; ; Civilian sit-in; Occupation of Parliament building; Rampaging Parliament building; Rockets fired at governmental district of Baghdad; Attacking, torching governmental offices; Storming, torching an Iranian consulate; Attacking, torching political party's offices; Attacking, torching militia's offices; Road blocks; Storming and blocking Al Najaf International Airport; Boycott of elections; Islamic sermon during Friday prayers; Friday prayer held in a Baghdad main street; Marching from Islamic holy shrine in Karbala to provincial governor's office; Burning a poster of Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini in a main street; Burning a picture of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei; Rebelling Members of Parliament's sit-in;
Status	Continued in October 2019

As sequel to protests in 2011, 2012 and 2013, Iraqi citizens have also in 2015 up until 2018 often and massively protested against the corruption and incompetence in their government which according to analysts and protesters had led to long-running problems in electricity supplies, clean water availability, Iranian interference in Iraqi politics, high unemployment, and a stagnant economy.

The muhasasa quota agreements of 2003–2006 (distributing ministerial positions including budgets over 'ethnic and religious groups', thus undermining and obliterating any sense of Iraqi national unity) were considered the root of most of those Iraqi problems.

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