Protesters clashed in New York on Friday (March 6) during a memorial for Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The memorial was held under New York's iconic Washington Square Arch as counterprotesters waved U.S., Israeli and pre-revolution Iranian flags behind police barricades before a lone protester disrupted proceedings, when he grabbed Khamenei portrait from a memorial table.

Police detained the individual, as both demonstrations continued into the evening.

The expanding war in Iran entered its second week on Saturday (March 7) amid renewed uncertainty about how or when hostilities will end, as U.S. President Donald Trump declared he would only accept Tehran's "unconditional surrender" and Israel traded fresh attacks with Iran and Lebanon.

DESCRIPCIÓN DE IMÁGENES

NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (MARCH 6, 2026)

1. PROTESTERS HOLDING MEMORIAL FOR IRAN'S LATE SUPREME LEADER, ALI KHAMENEI

2. PROTESTERS HOLDING UP IRANIAN FLAGS

3. PROTESTERS HOLDING UP PHOTOGRAPHS OF SON OF LAST SHAH OF IRAN, REZA PAHLAVI, AND IRAN'S LION AND SUN FLAG, CHANTING AT PROTESTERS ON OTHER SIDE OF BARRICADE HOLDING MEMORIAL FOR KHAMENEI

4. PROTESTER HOLDING UP PHOTOGRAPH OF KHAMENEI / PROTESTERS ON OTHER SIDE OF BARRICADE HOLDING ISRAELI AND U.S. FLAGS AND PHOTOGRAPH OF PAHLAVI

5. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING ACROSS BARRIER

6. (SOUNDBITE) (Language unknown) PROTESTER, SHOKRAN (LAST NAME NOT GIVEN), SAYING: "I have family living in Tehran, but at the time, we are all waiting for a moment where we might get the chance to take our country back."

7. PROTESTER SPEAKING AT MEMORIAL FOR KHAMENEI / COUNTERPROTESTER GRABBING PORTRAIT OF KHAMENEI AND GETTING SWARMED BY MOB

8. PROTESTER WHO GRABBED PORTRAIT BEING DETAINED

9. POLICE ESCORTING PROTESTER AWAY

10. POLICE SURROUNDING SQUAD CAR

11. WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK SIGN

12. CANDLES LAID OUT

13. PORTRAIT OF (LEFT TO RIGHT) KHAMENEI / THE FIRST PRIME MINISTER OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, PATRICE LUMUMBA / FORMER SUPREME LEADER RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI

14. (NIGHT SHOT) WASHINGTON SQUARE ARCH / PROTESTERS HOLDING ISRAELI AND U.S. FLAGS / PROTESTERS HOLDING IRANIAN FLAGS IN THE BACKGROUND

15. (NIGHT SHOT) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS DRAPED IN U.S. AND IRAN'S LION AND SUN FLAGS DANCING

16. (NIGHT SHOT) U.S. AND ISRAELI FLAG

17. (NIGHT SHOT) PROTESTERS GATHERING

18. (NIGHT SHOT) PROTESTER WAVING ISRAELI FLAG