{"id":17501,"date":"2026-03-13T11:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/17501\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T11:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:20:10","slug":"one-dead-after-explosion-at-pro-regime-al-quds-demonstration-in-tehran-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/17501\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after explosion at pro-regime al Quds demonstration in Tehran"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least one person has been killed after multiple explosions rocked a demonstration<\/a> in Tehran on Friday, according to Iranian state media.<\/p>\n

The unnamed woman reportedly died after being hit by shrapnel near the annual Quds Day march around noon<\/a>, as the US and Israel announced fresh strikes on the capital, according to Iran\u2019s Press TV.<\/p>\n

A large explosion was also reported at the Ferdowsi Square as pro-regime crowds gathered, chanting \u201cdeath to Israel\u201d and \u201cdeath to America\u201d.<\/p>\n

Footage from the square showed people shouting “God is the greatest” as smoke billowed over the capital. The cause of the blast was not immediately known.<\/p>\n

Pro-regime protesters turned out in cities across the country as Israel announced a fresh wave of strikes targeting \u201cmissile production and storage sites\u201d nationwide.<\/p>\n

\"Security<\/p>\n

Security personnel stand guard as Iranians take part in a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day (Reuters)<\/p>\n

Ali Larijani, the head of Iran\u2019s supreme national security council, said that the attacks showed Israel\u2019s \u201cweakness and confusion\u201d.<\/p>\n

A statement attributed to Iran\u2019s new supreme leader yesterday called on residents of Iran to take to the streets for the annual demonstration expressing solidarity with Palestine.<\/p>\n

Al Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

Iran president Masoud Pezeshkian also encouraged people to take to the streets and \u201cdisappoint the enemies of Iran\u201d in a post on social media.<\/p>\n

The regime has blocked the internet in Iran since the conflict erupted.<\/p>\n

\"Smoke<\/p>\n

Smoke rises following an airstrike at the same time as a Quds Day demonstration in Tehran on Friday (Getty)<\/p>\n

A Quds Day rally planned in the UK for Sunday was banned by British police over the possibility of \u201cextreme tensions\u201d with counter-protesters and this risk posed by Tehran during the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The leaders of Iran, Israel and the US meanwhile all vowed to fight on as the war approached the two-week mark on Friday, killing thousands of people, disrupting the lives of millions of others and shaking financial markets.<\/p>\n

In a post overnight, Donald Trump threatened Iran and signalled willingness to keep up the conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time – Watch what happens to these deranged scumbags today,\u201d he wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been killing innocent people all over the world for 47 years, and now I, as the 47th President of the United States of America, am killing them. What a great honor it is to do so!\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s military said on social media that strikes against the regime were ongoing, pointing to strikes on military facilities in Shiraz, Tehran and Ahvaz.<\/p>\n

In the capital, it said it had struck a central base for aerial defence array & several production sites for weapons, aerial defence systems, and ballistic missile components.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least one person has been killed after multiple explosions rocked a demonstration in Tehran on Friday, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9046,34,9047,37,9016,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-17501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tehran","8":"tag-demonstration","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-iran-president","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-quds-day","13":"tag-tehran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116221603024486882","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}