US-Israel war on Iran: IMN members stage protest across Nigeria
Naija News • 1h ago
Members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) have been staging protests since Sunday against the joint attack on Iran by the United States and Israel, which began on 28 February.
The Shia group, under the leadership of Ibrahim Zakzaky, has staged street demonstrations in Lagos, Niger, Kebbi, Kaduna, Sokoto and Kano, according to an IMN official who spoke to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday.
The US and Israel launched missiles on Tehran, killing more than 160 schoolgirls in Minab, southern Iran. The country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in the attack alongside his wife and other family members.
The decades-long geopolitical and ideological war dates back to 1979, following the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Western-backed autocratic government with a theocratic syst...