UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) - Times Square in New York witnessed on Saturday an anti-war rally following the recent US operation in Iraq that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) elite Quds Force, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the scene.
Several hundred people joined the rally, with some participants holding Iranian flags and late Soleimani's pictures.
There is a large anti-war protest happening now in Times Square.#NoWarWithIran pic.twitter.com/HKZV1alFCr
— Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) January 4, 2020
Right now in Times Square:
— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) January 4, 2020
New York City has come out to say we absolutely must not go to war.#NoWarWithIran pic.twitter.com/zyk9i366wo
On Friday, Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, deputy commander of an Iraqi Shia militia group, were among those killed by a US drone attack near Baghdad International Airport. US President Donald Trump called the attack a preemptive, defensive strike, while Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has warned that Tehran will take revenge for what it views to be a heinous crime.
There's a pretty big anti-war protest going on right now in Times Square in New York City, against US war on Iran (and Iraq again) pic.twitter.com/1kqRB4QftO
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 4, 2020
U.S. protests erupt in response to Trump administration's actions in Iraq and Iran Demonstrations have popped up in cities across North America, including New York, Philadelphia, Toronto and Washington, DC!!! #IranWar pic.twitter.com/DFYzBFRFH7
— DEMOCRACY NEWS (@BrotherMiguel2) January 4, 2020
Wow a pretty big anti-war protest going on right now in Times Square in New York City, against US war on Iran pic.twitter.com/e4wzMVt1CH
— Mustafa Abdi (@Mmabdi110) January 4, 2020
