One useless after explosion at pro-regime al Quds demonstration in Tehran
At least one person has been killed after multiple explosions rocked a demonstration in Tehran on Friday, according to Iranian state media.
The unnamed woman reportedly died after being hit by shrapnel near the annual Quds Day march around midday, as the US and Israel announced fresh strikes on the capital, according to Iran’s Press TV.
Witnesses said an airstrike also came just metres from hitting a gathering of protesters in Tehran, according to Al Jazeera Arabic.
Pro-regime protesters turned out in cities across Iran on Friday as Israel announced a fresh wave of strikes targeting “missile production and storage sites” nationwide.
Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s supreme national security council, said that the attacks showed Israel’s “weakness and confusion”.
A statement attributed to Iran’s new supreme leader yesterday called on residents of Iran to take to the streets for the annual demonstration expressing solidarity with Palestine.
Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.
Iran president Masoud Pezeshkian also encouraged people to take to the streets and “disappoint the enemies of Iran” in a post on social media.
The regime has blocked the internet in Iran since the conflict erupted.
A Quds Day rally planned in the UK for Sunday was banned by British police over the possibility of “extreme tensions” with counter-protesters and this risk posed by Tehran during the conflict in the Middle East.
The leaders of Iran, Israel and the US all vowed to fight on as the war approached the two-week mark on Friday, killing thousands of people, disrupting the lives of millions of others and shaking financial markets.
In a post overnight, Donald Trump threatened Iran and signalled willingness to keep up the conflict.
“We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time – Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,” he wrote on Truth Social.
“They’ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!”
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Source: independent.co.uk
