Mon 13 January 2020:
Iran’s leaders have faced a second day of protests following their admission the military shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane, killing all 176 people on board, many of them Iranians.
Protesters in Tehran and in several other cities chanted slogans against the leadership.
Clashes with security forces and the firing of tear gas are reported.
State television reported that students shouted “anti-regime” chants, while Fars reported that posters of Soleimani had been torn down.
Iran admitted “unintentionally” hitting the plane after initially denying it, amid rising tensions with the US.
The plane, en route to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was shot down near Tehran last Wednesday, shortly after Iran had launched missiles at two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.
Those strikes were a response to the US killing of senior Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on 3 January.
Breaking: Iranian protesters in Tehran dragged down #qasem_soleimani banners.#IranProtests2020 #Iran pic.twitter.com/p8NMRsbxUl
— Mehdi Mirghaderi ? (@mobarez_nastooh) January 12, 2020
US President @realDonaldTrump warned #Iran against killing protesters who have risen up over the regime’s downing of a civilian airliner as his defense secretary @EsperDoD left the door open to talks with Tehran without preconditionshttps://t.co/tY6fDTwqSP pic.twitter.com/tcK33lxTAb
— Arab News (@arabnews) January 12, 2020
Video of protesters driving over an image of Khamenei, #Iran. pic.twitter.com/wE5p6tnleu
— Aurora Intel (@AuroraIntel) January 12, 2020
In #Iran university students refused to trample over US and Israeli flag. pic.twitter.com/CRHVTYG8p2
— Sara Firth (@Sara__Firth) January 12, 2020
Wow this is big..???
Anti-government protests have started again in Iran after the Iranian regime confessed to its crime.
Now real Iranian people are protesting. I hope the mainstream media does not ignore them
Please share it with everyone#IranProtests #Iran pic.twitter.com/vlSNUWZYc8
— ??Amreen Nazanin Rajavi(Amy) (@Amreen__Rizvi) January 12, 2020
#Iranians tearing up Khamenei’s poster.
Occupied #Iran. pic.twitter.com/BdfFEZbyNr— Alireza Nader (@AlirezaNader) January 12, 2020
#BREAKING:
2 women shot and injured in Tehran, #Iran by khamenei’s mercenaries. #IranProtests pic.twitter.com/NStGIZRw4P— Borna Khiabani (@Borna___) January 12, 2020
Tonight, #IRGC has deployed these #Basij militiamen to brutally suppress #IranProtests across the #Tehran. They can be seen brutally attacking protesters in #AzadiStreet of #Tehran. #IranProtests2020 against #Iran‘s Islamic Regime over shot-down of Flight #PS752 by #IRGC. pic.twitter.com/zlWzTpk98t
— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 12, 2020
January 12 – Kermanshah, western #Iran
Crowd chanting:
“Death to the dictator!” in a direct reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.#IranProtestspic.twitter.com/zUpCaMJjyp— People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) (@Mojahedineng) January 12, 2020
Tonight, Iranians tear & burn images of #Khamenei & his eliminated terrorist, Qasem #Soleimani across the country during #IranProtests against #Iran‘s Islamic Regime over shot-down of Flight #PS752 by #IRGC. Iranians want #RegimeChange.#IranProtests2020 pic.twitter.com/9D9S6YLXjN
— Babak Taghvaee (@BabakTaghvaee) January 12, 2020
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