Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the largest Iranian cities to support the Iranian attack on arch-enemy Israel. Demonstrations have taken place in the capital Tehran and in the cities of Isfahan and Kerman, among others.
Shortly after the Revolutionary Guards, the elite corps of the Iranian army, announced the start of the retaliatory attack against Israel, people took to the streets. They gathered at Palestine Square, in the center of Tehran. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as “death to Israel” and “death to America,” a reporter from the AFP news agency noted at the scene. They also waved Iranian flags and flags of the Lebanese Hezbollah, a movement backed by Iran.
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A mural was also unveiled in the square, showing a torn Israeli flag with rockets in the background. It also contained the threatening text: “the next blow will be harder”.
In Isfahan, central Iran, people gathered around the grave of General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior member of the Revolutionary Guard who was killed on April 1 in the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
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In Kerman, in the south of the country, people also gathered at the grave of Qassem Soleimani, the former architect of Iranian military operations in the Middle East. He was killed by a US strike in Iraq in January 2020.
In addition, people also took to the streets in the cities of Tabriz, Kermanshah and Ahvaz.