Citizens of four European Union member countries—Italy, Slovakia, Latvia, and Malta—are heading to the polls today to elect their members in the European Parliament.
Twenty other member countries, including Germany, France, and Poland, will cast their votes on Sunday, which will be the fourth and last day of the election.
The number of each country’s representatives in the 720-member parliament is determined according to their population.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets after Friday prayers to protest Israel’s recent attacks on the country. The largest gatherings occurred in the capital, Tehran, where demonstrators marched following prayers at Tehran University.
High-ranking officials, including Iran’s Constitutional Court head Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei and former IRGC commander Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, joined the protest. Participants waved Iranian, Palestinian, and resistance group flags, and trampled on Israeli and US flags laid on the ground.
Protesters held banners reading “Down with Israel”, “Down with the US”, and “The Zionist regime will be destroyed”, while chanting slogans such as “We stand behind our leader”, “Everyone who clashed with Khamenei will eventually be destroyed”, and “Our right to nuclear weapons”.
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