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Annual anti-Israel protests have resumed in Tehran

The annual anti-Israel protests in Iran resumed today after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic.

In what Iran calls “Al-Quds Day” (Jerusalem Day), hundreds of thousands of Iranians took part in rallies in the capital, Tehran, chanting anti-Israel slogans, according to the state-run IRIB television network.

The demonstrations took place in support of the Palestinians, amid growing tensions in the Palestinian territories and Israel for more than a month.

“Iran has always supported the Palestinian resistance front and will continue to do so,” Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech. “And he denounces the normalization (with Israel), what some Arab countries have done is treason,” he added.

In addition to Tehran, demonstrations took place in the country’s largest cities such as Mashhad (northeast), Isfahan (central) and Tabriz (northeast), according to images transmitted by the IRIB network.

Protesters holding Palestinian and Iranian flags shouted “Death to America and Israel”.

“What is happening in the Palestinian Territories has canceled plans to normalize with the Zionist entity (Israel) and all agreements such as the Oslo Accords or the two-state solution,” he said in a televised speech in Arabic. to the Palestinians. ”

Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. State-organized rallies were established in 1979 by the leader of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, and are always held on the last Friday of Ramadan, the month of Muslim fasting, in solidarity with the Palestinians.

The date marks the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel during the Six Day War in 1967. It includes the holy sites of Jerusalem such as the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have unveiled a new medium-range missile, 1,450 km long, capable of hitting any part of Israel.

Iran does not recognize Israel and considers its government as the biggest enemy and the cause of all the problems in the region.

SOURCE: AMPE

Source: Capital

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