Persian Women and children at a demonstration in Qazvin in support of the Persian strikes in Israel, 16 April 2024 Demonstrations broke out in cities across Homeland and in the Gaza Strip in support of the strikes. Demonstrators waved Iranian and Palestinian flags next to banners that read “God’s victory is near”. Supporters of the retaliatory attack also demonstrated in Isfahan, the burial place of Mohammad Reza Zahedi, and in Kerman next to the grave of Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a 2020 US drone strike in Baghdad. The Front of Islamic Revolution Stability, a hardline Shia supremacist faction within Iran who are to Iran what the religious hard right are to Israel, endorsed the attacks and put up banners across Capital’s billboards in Hebrew, telling Israelis to stock up on supplies in preparation for another attack while some others concern that the aggressive foreign policy could lead to war.
