Making Iraq ‘normal’ again: do mass arrests and cash seizures signal end to corruption?

The useful part

Government insiders say the new PM is unleashing an 'earthquake' to clean up the system. Iraqis have heard it all before The gates of the Green Zone in Baghdad are made of five-metre-high armoured steel, reinforced with horizontal girders, and strung between concrete pillars and anti-blast walls. Police water cannon trucks are stationed nearby, along with armoured personnel carriers and squads of heavily armed soldiers.

How it works

• At the first sign of street protests – over failing electricity, unemployment or, more recently, the US-Israeli attacks on Iran – the gates are shut.