Iranians mark International Quds Day

Saman Kojouri
Press TV, Tehran

Voices of solidarity with Palestinians once again resonated in Iran on International Quds Day. Every year, the occasion brings millions of people to the streets to condemn the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and its crimes against the Palestinian people.

Addressing the demonstrators, Iran’s Parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf noted that the Palestinian resistance groups have taught a lesson to the Zionist regime and the Quds Day showed us that resistance is the only way to our success and progress.

This year's Quds day is marked as Muslims are infuriated by Israel's fresh spate of raids on Palestinian worshipers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound. In the past weeks, the regime has intensified its violence in the occupied Palestinian territories.

In the early days after the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, the late founder of the Islamic Republic Imam Khomeini stated that one of his goals was the liberation of Palestine from the Israeli occupying regime. But when Israel launched a new raid on the south of Lebanon on August 7, 1979, Imam Khomeini named the last Friday of the month of Ramadan as "al-Quds Day".

Iranians believe that International Quds Day is the embodiment of Muslims’ vigilance against Israeli atrocities, which shows that the plight of Palestinians will never be forgotten.

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