Staff Reporter:
Abas Aslani, an Iranian affairs analyst, says on Friday’s mass protests across Iran demonstrate that Israel’s attacks on the country are bringing people together, reports Al Jazeera.
Israel and the US had been hoping to “create a sense of chaos in the society in order to provoke the public against the government”, Aslani told Al Jazeera from Tehran.
“But it turned out differently and it created a sense of unity among [people from] different walks of life in the country as well as political factions,” he explained.
“Today, many people went to attend the Friday prayers. It was much more crowded than prayers in previous weeks. We were seeing people who normally do not attend Friday prayers [go] just for the sake of condemning Israeli aggression … This has made people rally around the flag.”
