Baghdad, 2007 Aug 20, IRIB

Tens of thousands of Iraqis held a massive demonstration against the American forces' savage raids on the peaceful parts of Baghdad Monday morning.

According to IRIB correspondent in Baghdad, the demonstrators began their protest in Baghdad's Sadr city from early morning by chanting anti-occupation slogans.

While holding Iraqi flags, boards condemning the presence of occupiers and pictures of the martyred Iraqi civilians, demonstrators chanted slogans against America, the Zionist regime and all the occupiers and condemned the raid by the American forces on the secure Shia-settled areas of Baghdad and the air raid on Sadr city.

The protest was the greatest popular demonstration in Baghdad in the last two months.

Heads of tribes, women, university students and doctors from different parts of Baghdad were among the protestors.

The demonstrators called on the Iraqi government to condemn the American forces' attacks and stop the occupiers from any aggression on secure regions.

The mass protest took place in one of the hottest summer days of Iraq. The Iraqi TV announced the weather is 50 degrees high Celsius.

In the last three weeks the American forces have bombarded Sadr city's residential areas and arrested a number of youths on baseless allegations of terrorism.

Bringing tension to Sadr city, the massive attacks have left a number of innocent civilians dead and injured.