(15 Apr 2024)
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Tehran – 15 April 2024
1. Wide of protest, hardline demonstrators chanting UPSOUND (Farsi): "Death to Israel"
2. Demonstrators waving Iranian and IRGC flags and chanting slogans
3. Woman holding sign reading (Farsi, Arabic): "Death to America" (English): "Down with U.S.A"
4. Demonstrators holding Palestinian flag and waving Iranian and IRGC flags
5. Sign with picture of Gen. Mohammad Reza Zahedi, an Iranian general killed in suspected Israeli strike on Iranian consulate in Damascus, text under picture reading (Arabic): "Abu Mahdi (Zahedi’s title)"
6. Mock missile with Iranian flag
7. Banner with picture of Gaza residents, mock missile in background
8. Israeli flag with text reading (Farsi): "Death to Israel" wrapped on donkey’s back (donkey is a symbol of stupidity in Iran)
9. Pan left of demonstrators waving flags
10. Sign reading (English): "Down with Israel"
11. Demonstrator holding picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader
12. Demonstrator holding signs reading (Arabic): "#retaliation-day" and (Farsi) "Gaza, oppressed, strong"
13. Demonstrators waving IRGC flags and chanting slogans
14. Mural on building reading (Farsi/Hebrew): "The next slap will be harder"
15. Demonstrators chanting slogans, waving flags
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of hardline supporters of the Iranian government gathered in central Tehran on Monday to show support for Iran’s recent attack against Israel.
Demonstrators waved flags of Iran, the revolutionary guard and Palestine and chanted "death to Israel."
The gathering was held in Tehran’s Palestine square, near the former Israeli embassy which now belongs to Palestine.
World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles.
The Iranian attack on Saturday marked the first time Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel, despite decades of enmity dating back to the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The attack happened less than two weeks after a suspected Israeli strike in Syria that killed two Iranian generals in an Iranian consular building.
An Israeli military spokesman said that 99% of the drones and missiles launched by Iran were intercepted.
AP Video shot by Mohsen Ganji
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