Across Iran, rallies in solidarity with Palestine

Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, and Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who is the commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, also participated in the rallies.

The annual Quds Day rallies are held on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan. On Thursday night, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the rallies this year are of greater significance than years past and urged Iranians to participate en masse. The Leader expressed hope that this year’s rallies would be among “the best, most glorious” demonstrations.

Interior Minister EskandarIn the capital, Tehran, Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf addressed rallygoers. Qalibaf said the story of Palestine had been one of longtime pain. “The hegemonic system has survived on oppressing humanity, and the Zionist regime is in fact criminal America’s killing machine,” the speaker said.

At Tehran University, where rallygoers were to hold Friday prayers, Zainab Nasrallah, the daughter of Hezbollah’s former leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah, said Lebanese people stayed committed to resistance.

Imam Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic, designated the last Friday in Ramadan, on the Muslim lunar calendar, as International Quds Day in 1979.

Millions of Iranians across the country are participating in rallies in solidarity with Palestine and to condemn the Israeli regime’s atrocities against Palestinian people.

The rallies are being held on Friday, International Quds Day, in cities, towns, and villages across Iran.

Iranian officials, including ministers from the administration of President Masoud Pezeshkian and the military, joined other Iranian citizens attending the rallies. President Pezeshkian himself joined demonstrators on Tehran’s Enqelab Avenue.