Iranian anti-regime group Lion Guard of Iran march on London chanting ‘Trump and Bibi, thank you thank you’

Iranian protesters marching through the heart of London chanted ‘Trump and Bibi, thank you, thank you’ as they danced to celebrate the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Daily Mail estimates a group of around 2,000 demonstrators marched from Whitehall towards the Iranian embassy in Kensington.

They called on the British government to ban the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the main arm of the Iranian military, as a terrorist organization and to bring to power in Iran Reza Pahlavi, the son of the country’s exiled king.

Footage of the protest in Whitehall, which many major government departments call home including the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign Office and the Cabinet Office, shows a group of people chanting ‘Trump and Bibi: thank you, thank you’.

One speaker said: ‘Trump and Bibi, we are forever grateful. ‘I thank every Iranian who dreamed of these miserable bandits going away.’

Israel and the United States killed Khamenei in a series of airstrikes on Tehran on February 28; This marked the beginning of a wave of violence in the Middle East.

Protesters were also seen dancing to an EDM remix of Trump’s speech announcing the assassination of Khamenei.

As the music swelled in Whitehall, many people were seen imitating Trump’s famous dance.

Many people held signs thanking both President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for their efforts in the war.

Iranian, American and Israeli flags waved as protesters marched towards Kensington in the capital

The war, now in its ninth day, has seen Iran respond aggressively by targeting Western military bases on the borders of its Gulf neighbors and drawing them into the conflict.

Protesters were heard chanting “Long live the king” in Persian, referring to Pahlavi.

Others shouted in Persian: ‘Last battle, Pahlavi will return!’

Many young children who attended the demonstration with their parents also shouted slogans.

Dozens of police officers attended the protest and scores of motorbike officers were sent ahead to warn traffic about the upcoming march in central London.

The stunned cyclists watching the protest were replaced by a group of motorcyclists who pinned Iranian flags to the back of their vehicles; Many slowed down as they passed the protest and revved their engines in solidarity.

A few puppets were mocking the Ayatollah’s death. One depicted him as a mouse being carried in a coffin.

One of the protesters behind the coffin told the Mail: ‘We want to show people that the religious leader of the terrorist regime in Iran is dead. We call him (Khamenei) Moush-Ali; That means it’s a mouse. A coward.”

One of the painted signs read in Persian: ‘I swear that I will stand behind the last drop of blood of the people we lost.’

Although the majority of the flags flying at the demonstration were Iranian flags, dozens were seen carrying Israeli and American flags.

Only a handful of people were seen waving Union Jack flags.

Protesters in Iran marched to bring to power Reza Pahlavi, son of the country’s exiled king

Some arrived wearing Donald Trump masks, while others were seen imitating the President’s signature dance moves

Many people were seen waving Israeli army flags above national flags

Above national flags, several people were seen waving flags of the Israeli military, including a man wearing a cape with both Iranian and Israeli flags on it.

Opposition Iranians also carried banners and wore hats reading “Make Iran Great Again,” a reference to Trump’s famous slogan.

Others were seen carrying banners depicting people killed by the Iranian regime.

Several people carried vuvuzelas in support of the Shah’s son, who was expelled from Iran following the 1979 revolution.

Niyak Ghorbani, who helped organize the demonstration, told the Daily Mail: ‘This is the ninth week we have been trying to ask the Labor government and Keir Starmer to ban the IRGC as a terrorist organisation.

‘[This is] For the safety of the British community. Many IRGC members and operatives are in the UK and we want the UK to ban them and close the Islamic Republic’s embassy.

‘We have many Revolutionary Guard members and supporters in this country. We must be careful with these people, they do not come here in peace. They plan to attack the Iranians, the British who support the Iranians, and the Jews.

‘They are always planning to do something against British society.’

He accused British politicians of being ‘afraid’ of the Iranian regime: ‘Unfortunately, they are afraid to take action. “They are already on our land. If we do anything to them, our families will be under threat,” they say.

A protester, who wished to remain anonymous, branded Sir Keir Starmer a ‘coward’ for refusing to join the war effort.

‘Joining the war is in everyone’s interest,’ he said. Sir Keir Starmer is a coward. I want to ask him: “Why don’t you help the Iranian people achieve freedom?”

A woman speaking at the protest said: ‘We will build an Iran so magnificent that we will let our lions loose. [their] We will release political prisoners to cages. ‘We will name the streets after our dead heroes.’

He warned the British government not to ban the Revolutionary Guards: ‘Lebanon banned the Revolutionary Guards, but today they are marching freely in London. A free and safe Iran is a free and safe West.

‘This means the end of Hezbollah, the end of the Houthis, the end of Hamas. ‘A free Iran is a free world.’

Iran announced today that it has chosen Khamenei’s son as his successor, despite calls for the end of the regime.

Many statues mocking the Ayatollah’s death were displayed. One depicted him as a mouse being carried in a coffin

One of the protesters behind the coffin told the Mail: ‘We want to show people that the religious leader of the terrorist regime in Iran is dead. We call him (Khamenei) Moush-Ali; That means it’s a mouse. ‘A coward’

One of the protesters brought up a large golden lion sign featured on the Iranian flag.

“Khamenei’s name will continue,” Ayatollah Hosseinali Eshkevari, a member of the religious council responsible for choosing the new leader, said in a video published in Iranian media.

“The vote has been taken and will be announced soon,” Eshkevari said, without giving further details.

Another cleric, Ahmed Alamolhoda, told state media that the council’s secretary, Hosseini Bushehri, would announce the successor of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed earlier in the conflict.

Trump said Sunday that Washington should have a say in the election. “If he doesn’t get approval from us, he won’t be able to stay in office for long,” he told ABC News.

Israel said it continued to target senior Iranian figures, including Abolkasem Babayan, the recently appointed head of the religious leader’s military office who was killed in an attack on Saturday.

Trump justified the largest US military operation in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq by saying Tehran posed an imminent threat to the US, without providing any evidence.

He also said that Iran was very close to producing nuclear weapons.

The United States and Israel discussed sending special forces to Iran in the later stages of the war to secure Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, Axios reported, citing sources.

Asked Saturday about sending ground troops to secure nuclear facilities, Trump said that was something the Iranians would only do if they were ‘too destroyed to fight on the ground.’

According to Iran’s ambassador to the United States, US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and injured thousands more.

10 people lost their lives in Iran’s attacks in Israel. At least six US soldiers were killed Sunday as Iran announced it had struck US bases in Kuwait. Israel announced on Sunday that two of its soldiers were killed in Southern Lebanon.