Tensions flared at Washington Square Park as protesters and counter-protesters clashed over the escalating war between the United States, Israel and Iran.<\/p>\n
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Tensions flared at Washington Square Park as protesters and counter-protesters clashed over the escalating war between the United States, Israel and Iran
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One group gathering for a vigil honoring Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a U.S. and Israeli strike last weekend
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With only a barricade between them, counter-protesters led by Iranian ex-pats and Israeli supporters waving the Israeli and American flags, and the Iranian flag, used before the 1979 Islamic Revolution<\/p>\n
One group gathering for a vigil honoring Iran\u2019s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a U.S. and Israeli strike last weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a supporter of this important commemoration of the brave martyrs that the U.S. and Israel murdered with bombs,\u201d anti-war protester Larry Holmes said.<\/p>\n
The strike was part of a broader military campaign hitting Iran\u2019s missile sites and warships, a conflict that Iranian officials say has already killed more than 200 people.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can\u2019t tell people in Iran how to feel. People in Iran are supporting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,\u201d anti-war protester Jesus Nievez said.<\/p>\n
With only a barricade between them, counter-protesters led by Iranian ex-pats and Israeli supporters waving the Israeli and American flags, and the Iranian flag, used before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, we needed external intervention to get rid of these terrorists from the whole Middle East, and they have the power of oil behind them,\u201d pro-war Iranian protester Ana said.<\/p>\n
For others there, they say the conflict is deeply personal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t believe it. I\u2019m mad. I\u2019m seriously mad and furious. They don\u2019t have any right to do this,\u201d pro-war Iranian protester Shokran Rahiminejad said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the war continues to expand with retaliatory attacks across the Middle East and new U.S. intelligence reports that Russia may be sharing information with Iran that could help target American forces in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tensions flared at Washington Square Park as protesters and counter-protesters clashed over the escalating war between the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5450,25,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,27],"class_list":["post-155928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-protests","tag-app-top-stories","tag-louis-finley","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}