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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Protesters rally across US after strikes on Iran that killed Khamenei

people hold signs at protest with messages such as 'bored of peace?' 'no bombs on Iran' and 'stop the war on Iran!'
Protesters rally against the US and Israeli bombing of Iran outside the White House in Washington DC on 28 February. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA

As news circulated that Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, had been killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, anti-war protesters gathered across the United States, including outside the White House and in New York’s Times Square to voice opposition to US military involvement in the region.

“It wasn’t sanctioned by Congress, so what Trump is doing is on his own terms, it’s making him a fascist and it’s making the country into a fascist state,” said Sue Johnson, a protester.

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