Worshipers attend rally, hold Friday prayers in Tehran as strikes pound Iran

Описание: (6 Mar 2026)
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Tehran, Iran - 06 March 2026
1. Various of worshipers in Tehran's grand mosque saying Friday prayers
2. Picture of late leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
3. Worshipers holding rally
4. Man holding placard reading (Farsi) "Death to America" and (English) "Down with USA
5. Man chanting (Farsi) "We'll fight, we'll die, we won't accept humiliation"
6. Protesters chanting (Farsi) "No compromise, no surrender, destruction of Israel!"
7. Protesters chanting (Arabic) "Far from us is disgrace"
8. Protesters chanting (Farsi) "Death to Israel"
9. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Hassan Fathollahi, 54, Tehran resident:
"Me and my kids have all come here to the Friday prayers to make our enemies understand that we and our children will sacrifice our lives for the (Islamic) revolution. We will not give up this revolution. We will not give up the blood of our leader. Every single son of Iran is ready to fight America and Israel until victory, God willing."
10. Various of rally, man holding placard with text "We will stand until the end"
STORYLINE:
Worshipers attended a rally after Friday prayers in Tehran, as the Iranian capital continues to be pounded by airstrikes, and Iran said it had fired ballistic missiles toward Israel.

"Me and my kids have all come here to the Friday prayers to make our enemies understand that we and our children will sacrifice our lives for the (Islamic) revolution," said Hassan Fathollahi, 54, who had attended the prayers with his children.

"Every single son of Iran is ready to fight America and Israel until victory God willing."

Israeli warplanes pounded Beirut and Tehran on Friday as Iran launched another wave of retaliatory strikes against Israel and Gulf countries.

There was no sign of the war letting up on its seventh day, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned the U.S. air campaign against Iran would “surge dramatically.”

AP video shot by: Mohsen Ganji

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