London protesters call for regime change in Iran

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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
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Crowds gather outside the Iranian Embassy in London to show “solidarity” with the wave of protests seen across Iran. (AN Photo)
Updated 08 January 2018
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London protesters call for regime change in Iran

LONDON: Protesters gathered outside the Iranian Embassy in London on Sunday shouting slogans against the regime, in support of recent anti-government protests in Iran.
The protest was staged as Iranian lawmakers held a closed-door session on Sunday about the week of demonstrations across the country.
According to protest organizers, the crowd numbered between 100 and 200 people.
London Metropolitan Police kept protesters away from the embassy building itself, containing them within a fenced off zone across the road in Kensington, west London.

Many of the protesters were seen holding pictures of the Shah of Iran who was overthrown in 1979.
Other protesters waved posters of Prince Reza Pahlavi, the last heir apparent to the defunct monarchy of Iran.
“There is one message from Iranian people: Regime change. (Iranian people) are sick and tired with the repression of the Islamic state of Iran,” Shahriar Bahrami, the protest’s organizer, told Arab News.
Police moved in to quell a minor scuffle between supporters of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran and supporters of the Shah.
Bahrami said the two sides want the same thing and must “work together” to see regime change take place.
Protesters in the crowd were vociferous in condemning the Iranian regime: “The people of Iran are fed up with the economic situation, with the corruption, with the mismanagement of the public funds, with the government thugs, with the regime spending billions interfering in Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, and at the same time the people of Iran are hungry; children have no food, no shoes to wear,” protester Reza Pardisan told Arab News.
The Iranian Embassy in London was not immediately available for comment.


Indian forces kill Maoist rebel leader: police

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Indian forces kill Maoist rebel leader: police

  • New Delhi has launched an all-out campaign against the insurgents and vowed to end the Maoist rebellion by March 2026
  • Police in the eastern state of Odisha said they had killed Maoist commander Ganesh Uike in a gunfight

BHUBANESWAR, India: Indian security forces killed a senior Maoist rebel commander and three other fighters including two women in a raid on Thursday, police said, as authorities push a major offensive against the guerrillas.
New Delhi has launched an all-out campaign against the insurgents and vowed to end the Maoist rebellion by March 2026.
Police in the eastern state of Odisha said they had killed Maoist commander Ganesh Uike in a gunfight in Kandhamal district, after security forces received a tip-off about his location.
Uike, 69, the leader of the Maoist rebels in the coastal state, had a bounty of more than $120,000 on his head.
“Four dead bodies of Maoists” were recovered following the gunfight, top state police officer Yogesh Bahadur Khurania said, identifying one of them as Uike.
Khurania said that the other three — two women and a man — were also rebel fighters, adding that their identities were being ascertained.
There were no casualties among the security forces.
Two Maoist fighters were killed in the same state on Wednesday.
India has been cracking down on the remnants of the Naxalite rebellion, named after the village in the Himalayan foothills where the Maoist-inspired insurgency began nearly six decades ago.
The rebellion once controlled nearly a third of the country, with an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 fighters at its peak in the mid-2000s, but it has been dramatically weakened in recent years.
Since 2024, over 500 Maoist rebels have been killed, according to the Indian government.