By Deutsche Welle
Apr 14, 2024, 09:37 AM EDT
Thousands of people gathered on Saturday night (04/13/2024) in the main cities of Iran to celebrate and support the unprecedented attack launched against Israel, the sworn enemy of the Islamic Republic.
In Tehran, protesters gathered in the central Palestine Square shortly after the announcement of the launch of the attack by the Revolutionary Guards, the country’s ideological army.
“Death to Israel” and “death to the United States”the participants chanted, repeating traditional slogans from the Islamic Revolution of 1979, an AFP journalist noted.
Many carried flags of Iran and the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah.
Iran’s official news agency, Irna, published on its social networks videos of protesters on foot and in cars, holding Iranian flags celebrating the attack.
Iranian authorities, such as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, They had promised to “punish” Israel after attributing to it an attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascuswhich killed seven Iranian soldiers on April 1.
In Palestine Square, a mural was inaugurated in which a torn Israeli flag appears with missiles in the background and a threatening slogan: “The next slap will be more violent.”
A brief rally was also held in front of the British embassy in the absence of American and Israeli diplomatic representations.
In Isfahan (center), people gathered around the grave of General Mohamad Reza Zahedi, the highest-ranking soldier of the seven Revolutionary Guards killed in the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
Before the attacks on Saturday and Sunday, Iranian Maryam, 43, said she hoped a “compromise” could be reached. in order to “prevent a war from starting and innocent people from dying.”
But others in Tehran wanted a stronger reaction from Iranian authorities.
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