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Chaos erupted successful Washington Square Park successful Manhattan arsenic a vigil mourning the decease of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei descended into unit Friday, with video capturing a antheral being pummeled to the crushed portion attempting to teardrop down a poster of the precocious Iranian leader.
Video showed a antheral attempting to propulsion down a poster of the dictator — killed past week successful an Israeli airstrike — erstwhile a antheral wearing a SpongeBob sweatshirt punched him successful the face, sending him to the ground.
Others began fighting, prompting New York City Police Department (NYPD) intervention.
As the brawl unfolded, the assemblage could beryllium heard shouting profanity.
A memorial array successful New York City for Khamenei, who is accused of sidesplitting thousands of Iranians. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
Multiple radical were captured connected video being detained by police.
The vigil featured a makeshift memorial array covered with Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, candles and photos of Khamenei, with an perceiver describing the country arsenic the "People’s Republic of New York."
Meanwhile, adjacent counter-protesters waved Iranian, American and Israeli flags portion chanting "U.S.A."
Khomeni supporters waved a ample emblem donning his portrait. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
In a flyer announcing the event, organizers called Khamenei's decease an "assassination by U.S. authorities forces."
Saturday's downtown Tehran onslaught that killed Khamenei and different authorities leaders was carried retired by the Israeli military.
U.S. officials person denied immoderate involvement.
"Throughout his life, Khamenei defended the dignity of the Iranian radical and stood firmly against zionism [sic] and the transgression American regime," organizers wrote connected the flyer. "Since the Islamic Revolution successful 1979 overthrew the U.S.-backed puppet government, the Iranian radical person resisted Western domination and the exploitation of their land, labor, and resources.
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"In that time, Iran severed each ties with the zionist [sic] authorities and was the archetypal state to big a Palestinian embassy connected its soil, each portion materially supporting Palestinian absorption and nationalist liberation movements crossed the world."
Among Khamenei's supporters were a radical of counter-protesters who slammed the vigil portion holding American flags and pre-1979 Islamic Revolution Iranian Lion and Sun flags.
"We're present to amusement everyone that Iranians don't similar the regime," a antheral astatine the rally told Fox News contributor Nicole Parker connected "Hannity."
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Protesters and counter-protesters gathered wrong Washington Square Park successful New York, New York, connected Friday afternoon. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
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"My household is successful Iran, but each of them are warring against the regime," different pistillate told Parker. "They're blessed astir this, they privation this war, this warfare is not astir Iranian people, this warfare is against the Islamic Republic."
Fox News Digital's Azziana Solomon contributed to this report.
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