Tehran, Sep 28 (EFE).- Thousands of people protested in cities across Iran to condemn Israel’s killing of the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah.
The secretary-general of the Lebanese Shiite group was killed when Israel bombed the suburbs of Beirut on Friday.
Hundreds of people led the marches in Palestine Square in Tehran, with shouts of “revenge”, “death to Israel and ”death to the United States,” the state-run IRNA news agency reported.
Iran blames the US for the death of Nasrallah and thousands of Palestinians and Lebanese for supplying weapons to Tel Aviv.
The demonstrators waved the flags of Iran, Palestine and Hezbollah, which together with the Palestinian Hamas group and the Houthi rebels in Yemen, among others, make up the Tehran-led anti-Israel ‘Axis of Resistance’.
Similar demonstrations took place in the cities of Isfahan, Kerman, Qom and Mashad.
Deputy commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Abbas Nilfrushan was also among those killed in Friday’s bombing.
Iran is one of Lebanon’s main allies and Hezbollah, which it has ed since its foundation in the 1980s. EFE
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