Workload and Movements are related but two distinctly different measurements.
Give a controller a RADAR longitudinal separation standard of 40NM and a 2000FT vertical separation standard (not approved for RVSM) and adjacent FIRs who don't like you and therefore won't talk to you let-alone help you, coupled with equipment that is less-than-reliable... and then you'll understand the workload comparison. It has little to do with Total Movements.
Balad ACC does not have the "luxury" of Air Traffic Control that controllers in the West take for granted.