{"id":36660,"date":"2025-06-24T22:41:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36660"},"modified":"2025-06-24T22:41:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T20:41:38","slug":"hundreds-of-thousands-march-against-us-backed-israeli-aggression-in-tehran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36660","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Thousands March Against US-Backed Israeli Aggression in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An article by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams<\/a> (reprinted according to Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0).<\/p>\n

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Tehran and other cities across Iran on Friday to protest Israel’s illegal and escalating assault as the U.S.\u2014Israel’s top ally and arms supplier\u2014considers entering the war, which killed or wounded\u00a0more than 2,600 Iranians\u00a0during its first week.<\/p>\n

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\nIranians protest Israeli attacks in Tehran on June 20, 2025.\u00a0(Photo: AFP via Getty Images)<\/center><\/p>\n

Reporting from Tehran,\u00a0Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi\u00a0called\u00a0Friday’s demonstrations “unprecedentedly large.”<\/p>\n

“We have to keep in mind that a considerable proportion of Tehran’s population has decided to get out of the city amid the attacks, but still we see huge numbers,” said Asadi. “Since day one of these strikes, we’ve seen this strong sense of anger from ordinary citizens. Now they’re taking to the streets to express that.”<\/p>\n

Protests also broke out in the capitals of Iraq and Lebanon as\u00a0Israel\u00a0and Iran traded missile strikes, and Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, arrived in Geneva for talks with European Union and United Kingdom officials.
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In an\u00a0interview\u00a0ahead of the talks, Araghchi called the United States “a partner in this crime” and said that Iran is unwilling to engage in negotiations “until this aggression stops.”<\/p>\n

Citing an unnamed senior Iranian official,\u00a0 Reuters reported\u00a0that Iran “was ready to discuss limitations on uranium enrichment but that any proposal for zero enrichment\u2014not being able to enrich uranium at all\u2014would be rejected, ‘especially now under Israel’s strikes.'”<\/p>\n

The mass demonstrations came as U.S. President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0weighed options\u2014including the\u00a0use of a nuclear weapon\u2014to directly join Israel’s attack on Iran. The White House said Thursday that a final decision from the president will come within two weeks.<\/p>\n

Ryan Costello, policy director at the National Iranian American Council, said in a\u00a0statement\u00a0Friday that “the use of nuclear weapons to prevent the mere possibility of nuclear weapons is not strategy\u2014it is a waking nightmare.”<\/p>\n

“A nuclear strike would massacre Iranians indiscriminately and unleash devastating radioactive fallout across Iran and the region, spreading terror, panic, and irreversible harm,” said Costello. “We should never have come to this point. But we are here. And we must raise our voices, urgently, against Netanyahu’s war of aggression and the warmongers cheering it on. The path forward is diplomacy, not devastation. We must shut this Pandora\u2019s box before more horrors are unleashed.”<\/p>\n

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