Protesters in Iran bravely paid the ultimate insult to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei by walking on a regime poster image of his face Sunday night that had been taken down from its outdoor display. A video shows protesters walking, stomping, spitting on and tearing up the poster of Khamenei as it lay on the sidewalk.
https://twitter.com/bamdad_sepeed/status/1216452099317403648
A later post of the video gave the location as being in Tehran, with a protester quoted as contemptuously saying, “Burn that filth”
“Jan 12 – Tehran, #Iran Ostad Moein Street Protesters tearing & stomping an image of @khamenei_ir. Voice says, “Burn that filth!”
Jan 12 – Tehran, #Iran
Ostad Moein Street
Protesters tearing & stomping an image of @khamenei_ir.
Voice says, "Burn that filth!#IranProtests2020 pic.twitter.com/DxgYyJvBoa— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 12, 2020
Also, a video shows protesters taking down a poster of slain Quds Force leader Major General Qassem Soleimani.
#حاج_قاسم_باز_کتلت_شد #نه_به_جمهوری_اسلامی pic.twitter.com/ErGW1MkCjj
— Dada Shastoni (@DadaShastoni) January 12, 2020
Finishing the job:
Jan 12 – Tehran, #Iran
Protesters tear down a poster of the now dead IRGC Quds Force chief Qassem Soleimani.
"Death to dictator!" chants can be heard.
People are specifically targeting the regime's tyrant @khamenei_ir.#IraniansDetestSoleimani pic.twitter.com/n8TBUjKXrm— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 12, 2020
And another:
https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1216401733003464704
The protesters are risking death or imprisonment for these acts of defiance against the Islamist regime.
UPDATE: Should have included this earlier, video of Iranians respecting the U.S. and Israeli flags and calling out Basij who walked on the flag in Tehran early Sunday. Stark contrast shows state of affairs in Iran.
Students in Tehran University take pains to avoid walking on the flags of U.S. & Israel—as the regime forces people to do—and when two Basiji regime agents then make a point of trampling the flags, the crowds shout "Besharaf!" #بیشرف — the regime is shameless, dishonorable. pic.twitter.com/BLr5QKztr8
— UN Watch (@UNWatch) January 12, 2020