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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKB3FtM8s7Q

A large group of youths took to the streets of Katsina on Sunday in a public demonstration in support of Iran, amid escalating tensions between the Islamic Republic and Israel.

In a video shared on X (formerly Twitter) by social media user Oyindamola (@dammiedammie35), dozens of people could be seen waving Iranian flags and holding banners as they marched in unison through a street in the northern city. Chants in solidarity with Iran echoed through the air, as the demonstrators made their position on the ongoing Middle Eastern crisis clear.

LEADERSHIP reports that the Katsina protest came against the backdrop of an intensifying conflict between Iran and Israel, two regional powers locked in a long-standing rivalry that escalated dramatically earlier this year.

Tensions reached a boiling point in April 2025, when Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles toward Israel in what it described as retaliation for an Israeli airstrike on its consulate building in Damascus, Syria. The airstrike killed several members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including senior commanders. Iran’s unprecedented retaliatory attack on Israeli soil marked a historic shift in the nature of hostilities between the two countries, transitioning from proxy confrontations to direct military engagement.

In response, Israel struck Iranian military infrastructure inside Iran, further fueling concerns of a full-scale regional war that could draw in multiple actors, including the United States, Gulf nations, and other militant groups aligned with Iran.

The conflict has since simmered, with both nations engaged in cyber warfare, intelligence operations, and military posturing, even as the international community calls for de-escalation.

Nigeria, a nation with a sizable Muslim population and long-standing diplomatic ties with both Iran and Israel, has maintained a neutral stance in the conflict.

As of the time of filing this report , it remained unclear whether the protest was organised by any particular group or was spontaneous in nature. Authorities was yet to issue a statement regarding the protest, and there were no reports of violence or arrests.

https://leadership.ng/katsina-youths-stage-pro-iran-protest-amid-ongoing-war-with-israel/

If only they were this serious about the pathetic conditions of their own poverty stricken lives.

Bandits dey una backyard maiming and killing hundreds. You never came in protest of it but in protest of a country far away that doesn’t give a f about your existence.

These ones na Shi’a. Make una fellow Sunni catch una.

Happening in a country where a Northern group just butchered over 200 innocent citizens in Benue State in one night, without any Northern group condemning such abominable and horrific act.

Misplaced priority..... We should deal with our insecurities first... Mtcheew

They never protested bandit attack right under their nose.

But na Iran dey give them sleepless night.

Their baba say them be lazy youths

That's the country we are in the British experiment




The gathering of the experiment is what we see every day..

My own is , when will our own self annionted chosen ones be going to defend their real Alaigbo in ME?

Abi their own version of Jude no include fighting and dying for their collective stolen lands

lol… northern youths that never protest the lack of growth, education and suffering in northern Nigeria.


Chai.

Who do this ones this kind thing.?

They are not sure about there next meal
I wish they are going over there to fight this war

Not surprised. They won't mind the ir business here in Nigeria. See as insecurity dey kill dem in the North

Very dishonest and wicked set of people. What rubbish is this. How can you protest the annihilation of Iran's nuclear sites but remain silent on the daily killing and maiming of your fellow northerners/nigerians. These people are just plain stupid and wicked.

A very senseless act from the northern youth.. why not channel the same energy towards banditry and herdsmen rampaging in your own nation ... I smell mumu for their head

Funny ass pickers. U didn't protest about benue, plateau, enugu etc killings. It's iran that is thousands miles away that u are protesting for.

I can see that u guys are really lazy and jobless youths according to ur granny, buhari.

Stupịd people forgot to protest insecurity and herders attacks on their own soil

We expect this to happen. These people are only hidden. Terrorism is their song on daily basis. That's why you will never see any Islamic cleric preach against it

Misplaced priority, even the war turned Gaza is still better than Katsina not to talk of Iran, this guys are drunk, instead of working out how to save themselves from hunger and hardship in there area they are busy misbehaving. Shior.

Make Buhari use him level send Dem go Iran go do the protests abeg

At least,it's equivalent to being sponsored to Mecca

Wereys wey dey wear suit

Just imagine dis people.....so what's happening in Benue and other parts of Nigeria doesn't give them concern?

Misplaced priorities. No protest against Bokoharam or bandits.

Fine let the whole world know that it's only the North,

We the West and South has nothing to do with the trash

The news should be tag as Northerner only biko

This reminds me of Matt 7:5
First cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother's eye. Thou hypocrite.
Your house dey burn, you lef am go dey look for the house wey smoke dey comot from.

Sheuns:
Bandits dey una backyard maiming and killing hundreds. You never came in protest of it but in protest of a country far away that doesn’t give a f about your existence.

The bandits the same people protesting. This time they do so with banners.

Very funny set of people. This Islamists.

You lots are winning the war, in fact, Israel has been destroyed completely, if in doubt ask your representatives on nairaland.

Now you are here protesting? For what exactly? Haven't you done enough damage? You have finished all the houses in Israel and nobody is complaining, now you're here crying and protesting.

Is there something you guys know that your representatives in nairaland don't know? Do you guys have pictures of realities in Iran, because your nairaland representatives don't have any, not even Aljazeera can take a single picture in Iran as we speak? In fact, there is no access to Internet in Iran for anyone to post events or call relatives in overseas.

The only people who can legitimately protest are Israeli supporters who have access to pictures and videos of happenings in Israel.

You lots should have been rounded up supposed we have a government.

Abeg shey with the sets of power rangers in their state, na dem wan go face Israel hmmmmmmm I just pity them make dem sha please spare we that don't have guns[color=#990000][/color]

It's only Yoruba that liberals in this country I will not condemn this alimajiri yet because I know eboes people too will come out later and protest against iran the Nigeria Israel.

How does it concern them?
In the voice of Buhari: "LAZY YOUTHS" 😎