{"id":156300,"date":"2026-03-07T17:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156300\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:55:13","slug":"nypd-arrests-pro-anti-khamenei-protestors-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156300\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD arrests pro, anti-Khamenei protestors in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple people were arrested amid a clash between pro-Iranian regime demonstrators, who erected a shrine to the slain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/jerusalem-report\/article-888665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei<\/a>, the former supreme leader of Iran, and anti-Khamenei protesters at Washington Square Park on Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/ayatollah-ali-khamenei\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pro-Khamenei activists<\/a>, who at the height of their demonstration numbered about 50 people, assembled beneath the Washington Square Arch, where they flew Iranian flags and set up tables, which featured pictures of the ayatollah and other revolutionary figures, including Malcolm X and Congolese politician Patrice Lumumba, as well as racial-justice figures, like George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>Assembled in opposition on the north side of the arch was an equal number of anti-Khamenei protesters, several of whom were draped in Israeli and US flags, who could be heard chanting, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-888993\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khamenei\u2019s dead! Khamenei\u2019s dead!<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A New York Police Department spokesman could not immediately say how many people were arrested and what they were charged with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Witnesses described one incident where an anti-Khamenei protester jumped a barrier in an effort to snatch a sign. The man was reportedly beaten by the pro-Iranian protesters before he was taken into police custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Khamenei was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike on Feb. 28 at the outset of a joint Israeli and US operation intended to topple the Iranian government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">President Donald Trump on Friday demanded the \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d of Iran and the installation of \u201cacceptable\u201d leaders as conditions to end the weeklong war with Tehran that has spread across the volatile Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple people were arrested amid a clash between pro-Iranian regime demonstrators, who erected a shrine to the slain&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62593,64638,9,11,10,62206,6648],"class_list":["post-156300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-iran-israel-war","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156300","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=156300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}