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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - TEHRAN — One woman has been killed after multiple explosions were heard around the al-Quds Day march in the Iranian capital on Friday, where thousands were taking part in annual rallies held in solidarity with Palestinians, as US-Israeli attacks across the nation continued for the 14th day.
Iran’s national security chief Ali Larijani, attending the mass rally in Tehran, dismissed the latest Israeli-US attacks on the capital as being “out of desperation.”
“These attacks are out of fear, out of desperation. One who is strong wouldn’t bomb demonstrations at all. It’s clear that it has failed,” Larijani told state TV while marching for the annual rally in support of the Palestinian cause.
A large midday explosion on Friday rocked a Tehran square filled with demonstrators who were there for the annual event, Iranian state television reported.
The cause of the blast in Ferdowsi Square was not immediately known, but it came shortly after Israel had threatened people to clear the area because it planned a strike.
State media outlet Press TV said one woman was killed from shrapnel as a result of a US-Israeli airstrike, without providing any other specifics.
Al Jazeera Arabic reported an air strike meters away from the gathering of protesters in Tehran.
Crowds turned out in Tehran and other cities, despite ongoing US and Israeli strikes in the region during the commemoration, state media reported.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian called on the population to participate despite the war. On Thursday, he posted on X urging his fellow Iranians to “disappoint Iran’s enemies by taking to the streets in greater numbers than ever before”.
Iran has marked al-Quds Day on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan since its 1979 Islamic Revolution, after the occasion was declared by the republic’s founder and first Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
The minister of roads, as well as the minister for sports and youth, were also seen among those demonstrating, Tasnim news agency reporte
On Thursday, Larijani warned the United States against escalating the war by hitting key energy infrastructure, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take out Iran’s electric capacity “within one hour”.
“If they do that, the whole region will go dark in less than half an hour and darkness provides ample opportunity to hunt down US servicemen running for safety,” Larijani said on X.
“While starting a war is easy, it cannot be won with a few tweets. We will not relent until making you sorry for this grave miscalculation,” he added.
Larijani’s comments came shortly after Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei delivered his first statement, where he called for national unity and said the Strait of Hormuz, a key global shipping artery, would continue to be closed to pressure Iran’s enemies.
The comments come a day after Trump said the US had largely neutralized Iran’s military capabilities in the US-Israel war on Iran, which began on February 28.
“They’ve got no navy, they’ve got no air force, they’ve got no anti-aircraft… We’re just riding free range over that country,” the US president told reporters in Maryland.
He warned that Washington could strike power systems if it decided to intensify its military campaign. “We could take apart their electric capacity within one hour, and it would take them 25 years to rebuild it,” he said.
Later, at a campaign rally in Hebron, Kentucky, Trump claimed the US had already “won” the war with Iran and must now “finish the job”.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Thursday said approximately 6,000 targets had been struck in Iran since the US and Israel launched their first strikes 12 days ago.
The attendance by Larijani was one of the most high-profile public appearances by an Iranian official since the February 28 strike that killed supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top officials. National police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan also attended, state TV pictures showed.
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