Iraqis in Baghdad demonstrate in support of Iran against Israeli-US attacks

Описание: (1 Mar 2026)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Baghdad, Iraq - 28 February 2026
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Protesters holding giant poster of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and waving Iranian flag
2. Wide of protesters chanting in support of Iran
3. Religious officials chanting during demonstration
4. Various of protesters chanting
5. Protesters on top of vehicle chanting and holding up portrait
6. Various of protest, some demonstrators waving flags
7. Close of protesters waving banners depicting former Iranian top general, Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 by a U.S. drone strike, and Iraq’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani
8. Various of riot police with shields in front of protesters
9. Protesters chanting
10. Various protest, demonstrators holding flags and portraits
11. Wide of police
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people took to the streets of Baghdad on Saturday evening in support of the Iranian government following strikes by Israel and the United States on Iran.

Demonstrators waved Iranian and Hezbollah flags a loft while others carried posters depicting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, former Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in 2020 by a U.S. drone strike, and Iraq’s top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.

The demonstration followed a major attack launched by Israel and the U.S. that killed Khamenei, according to President Donald Trump.

“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump wrote in a social media post.

He warned of “heavy and pinpoint bombing” that he said would continue throughout the week and even beyond, part of a lethal assault the U.S. has justified as necessary to disable the country's nuclear capabilities.

Iran did not immediately confirm the death.

The attack opened a stunning new chapter in U.S. intervention in Iran, carried the potential for retaliatory violence and a wider war and also represented a startling flex of military might for an American president who swept into office on an “America First” platform and vowed to keep out of “forever wars.”

If confirmed, the killing of Khamenei in the second Trump administration assault on Iran in eight months, appeared certain to create a leadership vacuum given the absence of a known successor and because the 86-year-old supreme leader had final say on all major policies during his decades in power.

He led Iran’s clerical establishment and its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, the two main centers of power in the governing theocracy.

Iran, which responded to the strikes with its own counterassault, warned of retribution.

AP Video shot by Ali Jabar

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