{"id":156456,"date":"2026-03-07T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156456\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:03:14","slug":"nyc-vigil-for-ali-khamenei-turns-violent-as-protestors-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156456\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC vigil for Ali Khamenei turns violent as protestors clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-regime attendees of a vigil for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei<\/a>, gathered in Washington Square Park in New York City<\/a> on Friday evening, clashed with anti-regime protestors. <\/p>\n

A group of New Yorkers<\/a> gathered to mourn Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a>, who died in a Feb. 28 strike as part of the U.S. and Israel\u2019s joint attack on Iran, dubbed Operation Epic Fury. The group marketed<\/a> the vigil as an event honoring \u201cALL MARTYRS OF AMERIKAN IMPERIALISM.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Khamenei mourners waved Iranian flags and stood before a vigil with images of the now deceased Ayatollah and other American figures like George Floyd<\/a> and Malcolm X, counterprotestors gathered on the outskirts of the vigil. Videos<\/a> circulating on social media captured one protester rushing into the vigil and attempting to tear down a poster, resulting in a brawl between the two groups that prompted the New York City Police Department to intervene.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the NYPD told the Washington Examiner that \u201cthree individuals were taken into custody and issued criminal court summonses for disorderly conduct\u201d from the vigil clash.<\/p>\n

As the vigil attendees chanted remarks<\/a> like \u201cdeath to America, death to Israel,\u201d the counter-protestors included individuals carrying American flags, Israeli flags, and Iranian flags. One Iranian counterprotestor told Fox News<\/a> they were there in order \u201cto show everyone that Iranians don\u2019t like the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n

IRAN PROMISES NOT TO ATTACK MIDDLE EAST NEIGHBORS BUT STILL FACES \u2018COMPLETE DESTRUCTION,\u2019 TRUMP SAYS<\/a><\/p>\n

The incident occurred nearly one week out from the start of Operation Epic Fury. The U.S. military has hit over 3,000 targets as part of the operation so far, the U.S. Central Command\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump called for Iran\u2019s \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d on Friday, and said the regime \u201cwill be hit very hard\u201d on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-regime attendees of a vigil for Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, gathered in Washington Square Park in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62617,14670,64680,9,24,56,63,65,64,103,3286,4648],"class_list":{"0":"post-156456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-ali-khamenei","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-khamenei","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-nyc-headlines","16":"tag-nyc-news","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-police-and-law-enforcement","19":"tag-protests"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156456","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=156456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}