Iranian media networks aligned with the state and the IRGC circulated reports of crowds shouting 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' at major religious shrines in Qom and Mashhad.
Iranian state-aligned media and military channels heavily promoted videos of anti-Western demonstrations at the country's most prominent religious sites on Sunday. Coverage across these networks focused on unified crowds of the Iranian people chanting against the United States and Israel.
According to Akharin Khabar, a prominent conservative Iranian news aggregator, demonstrators gathered at the shrine of Fatima Masumeh in Qom where the Iranian people shouted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". This exact framing was amplified by the IRGC News Channel, a network closely aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which similarly broadcasted the chants from the Qom shrine.
Demonstrations were not limited to Qom. Akharin Khabar also reported that identical "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" chants were shouted by the Iranian people at the Razavi Shrine in Mashhad.
Both media outlets utilized black mourning flag emojis in their coverage, contextualizing the anti-Western and anti-Zionist chants within an atmosphere of religious or state mourning. The uniform messaging across these channels underscores a concerted effort by state-affiliated media to project a unified, religiously grounded resistance against the US and Israel.
The source messages are practically identical in wording, highlighting a highly coordinated messaging strategy between general conservative news aggregators and IRGC-affiliated channels. The use of mourning flags suggests these chants coincided with a specific religious observance or recent casualty, though the brief text does not specify the exact catalyst.