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Annual anti-Israel demonstrations in Iran took place again on Friday after a two-year gap due to the coronavirus pandemic. On what Iran calls al-Quds Day, hundreds of thousands took part in the rallies in the capital Tehran, shouting anti-Israel slogans, according to state broadcaster IRIB. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem. The state-organized rallies, introduced in 1979 by the Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini, always take place on the last Friday of Ramadan. The date marks the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel during the Six-Day War in 1967. This included the Jerus…