Iran and its allies in the Arab and Islamic world, mainly Iraq and Lebanon, held on Friday protests on Qods (Jerusalem) Day.
Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani, addressing a crowd in Tehran, warned against “putting Iran in a corner.”
The countries trying to do so “don't know that with this action they are threatening their own security," Agence France Presse quoted him as saying.
According to Reuters, Larijani also said that “the claim of creating a new regional order is a mistake they are making and it is an illusion ... It is our responsibility to defend Palestinians.”
In Iraq, thousands of Shiites also marched in Baghdad on the occasion, the German News Agency, dpa, reported.
As for Beirut, the media of Iran-backed “Hezbollah” said the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke in a televised address to crowds gathered in the southern town of Maroun al-Ras on Lebanon’s border with Israel.
“Day after day we realize the importance for Jerusalem to have a Day because Jerusalem lies at the heart of the conflict that is ongoing for more than 70 years,” said Nasrallah.
He also said that Jerusalem has come under a plot following the transfer of the US embassy from Tel Aviv.
The leader of the militant group said his men will not leave Syria even if the whole world tried to force them to do so, adding that only a request from the Syrian regime would prompt such a move.
He claimed Hezbollah does not have a special project in Syria.
“We are in Syria, where we should be and where the Syrian leadership has asked us to be,” Nasrallah told the crowds.
