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Pro-Iran authorities rallies were held successful parts of the Kashmir vale and Ladakh’s Kargil aft Friday (January 16, 2026) prayers.
A large rally was held successful Kashmir’s Budgam wherever worshippers took to streets and raised anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans. The rally was held from the Budgam the Imambara to the main chowk.
Protesters were carrying posters of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the precocious person Ruhollah Khomeini. They besides raised slogans, expressing solidarity and enactment to the Iranian regime, which has been facing protests wrong the state for galore weeks now.
Prominent Shia cleric Aga Syed Hassan, who heads the Anjuman-e-Shari Shia Budgam, besides joined the rally on with respective spiritual leaders. “International media organisations should study facts from Iran. Disturbances person been curbed. Peace has been restored. There is simply a request to debar further escalation of tensions,” Mr. Hassan said.
Praising those protesting successful favour of Iran successful Kashmir, erstwhile J&K Chief Minister and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) president Mehbooba Mufti said the U.S. was “routinely attacking countries successful the sanction of restoring ideology portion exploiting their earthy resources”.
“Glad that radical of Kashmir were coming guardant to enactment Iran and rise their dependable against what she termed planetary injustice. Such protests should person taken spot crossed India arsenic well. Iran has historically been a bully person of India. However, the concern has changed owed to policies pursued by the BJP,” Ms. Mufti said.
In Ladakh, hundreds of worshippers aft Friday (January 16) prayers deed galore towns of Kargil, including Kargil town, Sankoo and Drass successful spite of sub-zero temperatures. Expressing enactment towards the Iranian regime, the worshippers condemned the U.S. and Israel.
“People successful Kargil person expressed unequivocal and unwavering solidarity with the person of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenei, and the Islamic Revolutionary system,” Sajjad Kargili, a person from Kargil, said.
He said the extent of nationalist passionateness and resoluteness conveyed a wide message, arsenic adjacent the harshest conditions cannot soundlessness the dependable of information and resistance. “Imperialism whitethorn instrumentality lives, but it tin ne'er extinguish an ideology,” Mr. Kargili said.
