Demon­stra­tions of thou­sands of pro­test­ers dur­ing Shi­ite Ashura cer­e­mony in Kar­bala, chant­ing slo­gans con­demned the Iran­ian inva­sion of Al-Fakkah oil well, despite the attempts made by Maliki gov­ern­ment to pre­vent the broad­cast of what is happened.

Iraqi Shi­ite Satel­lite TV chan­nels blocked these demon­stra­tions, but at least two chan­nels suc­ceeded (one of them Al-Anwar Kuwaiti TV Chan­nel, and the other is a local Kar­bala chan­nel broad­cast — inside the Al-Hussein Shrine).

Shi­ite Imam Abdul Hamid Al-Muhajir, who is banned from giv­ing his cer­e­monies in Kar­bala because his con­tin­ues attacks on the Maliki’s gov­ern­ment, he went to Basra and their started to attack Maliki again saying:

You [Maliki] must know the size of your author­ity. Who are you to stop us? We have waited 35 years to go back to Iraq and to Kar­bala. Who are you to decide who can par­tic­i­pate in Karbala’s cer­e­mony and who can not (video of his speech).