Tens of Thousands of Iranians, some chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel,” marched in the capital of Tehran on Friday to mark “Jerusalem Day,” an annual show of support for the Palestinians.
Banners raised by demonstrators read “the destruction of Israel is near” and “Palestine is the axis of unity of the Muslim world.”
Senior Iranian officials attended the rally, including President Ebrahim Raisi.
Since Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, the rallies marking what is also known as al-Quds Day have typically been held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Al-Quds is the Arabic name for the contested city at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel captured East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War and annexed it to its capital. The Palestinians seek the eastern part of Jerusalem as their future capital. Jerusalem is the home of the Temple Mount, the most sacred site in Judaism, which also houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam.
“The Palestinians are actively confronting Israeli aggression from Gaza to the heart of Tel Aviv,” he added, alluding to a surge in violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the start of the year.
Recent weeks saw deadly attacks and clashes in Israel, East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as cross-border fire between Israeli forces and terrorists in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria.
“Yesterday they (Palestinians) were fighting with stones, and now they hit (Israel) with rockets,” Qalibaf said.
The rally was the first al-Quds Day demonstration after the country was shaken by months of anti-government protests.
Waves of protests erupted after the September death of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who was detained by the morality police for allegedly violating Iran’s strict Islamic dress code. The protests rapidly escalated into calls for the overthrow of Iran’s ruling Shiite clerics, marking a major challenge to their four-decade rule. Iran’ has blamed the unrest on foreign powers.
“We have witnessed conspiracies by enemies in recent times,” Qalibaf told the crowd in Tehran on Friday. “If it wasn’t for God’s grace and our nation’s intelligence… they would have had their dreams.”
Demonstrators on Friday rallied from 10 different directions to Tehran University’s campus, where the ceremony ended at Friday’s noon prayers.
State TV showed footage of similar rallies in other Iranian cities and towns. Many carried Palestinian flags and the banner of Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Demonstrators in some places set fire to American and Israeli flags, as well as effigies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Ask yourself, why would people want other people of any area, or Israel, that keep to themselves, to be eliminated? Pure Jealousy? Absolute Greed? Israel has been blessed with resources, very energized happy people, and jealousy is their worst enemy, greed will be Israel's enemies downfall, right?
People that decide they don't like Israel don't like themselves, are acting like a pack of wild, crazed animals preying for a kill just because, IMO! People in the Middle East need to be kind, open armed to Israel's people that just want to embrace their own land, their convent to God blessing them their gifts bestowed upon them, in, or, of THEIR land of Israel, IMO!
Israel shows the world how ignorant mankind toward them can be which makes those tribal hater's appear quite enslaved by imagined slights sold to them by land grabbers that don't even care about the mob they encourage to
breed hatred to, IMO! So, the souls of those hurting themselves need to embrace Israel, and love the very loving people in Israel! Israel's people set examples of how to be a true kind soul, IMO! Israeli's still must defend their hard work, blessings, and families naturally, protect against other's trying to steal their joy, IMO! USA should help our Ally always too!
Bless Israel, bless their abundance, bless them with peace, and protect Israel & it's people from extremely pathetic enemies that seek to steal their goods; God is good, God has a plan! Sorrow will ensue those that don't take heed and bother Israel! "Love", rather than soon enemies will bear God's wrath, is what those enemies might want to embrace instead, right??
Sad, History repeats itself and that this feuding even still exist, yet we are divided in USA even, so look to our Lord for answers, again, and again! Embarrassed by some very ignorant aspects of mankind; rest assured, there are many great souls abounding around though! Angels are with us too! Whew, the hater's need exchange hate for love, faith, hope, kindness, joyfulness, it will/would be, so much more fun than their picking on Israel, they need get a life, right? Go Bibi!!!
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