{"id":3903,"date":"2026-03-02T07:27:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2026-03-02T07:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T07:27:41","slug":"128939360-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=3903","title":{"rendered":"Iran-Israel conflict: Massive protest in Srinagar over Ayatollah Ali Khamenei\u2019s killing; police use tear gas shells to disperse crowd | Srinagar News &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"MwN2O\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"T22zO\">\n<div class=\"LVN95\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-128939486,imgsize-3248894,width-400,height-225,resizemode-72\/128939486.jpg\" title=\"Srinagar's Lal Chowk Sealed Off Amid Kashmir Shutdown In Protest Against Iran Supreme Leader Killing\" imgsize=\"23456\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdersrc=\"\" placeholdermsid=\"\" msid=\"\" type=\"thumb\" alt=\"Srinagar's Lal Chowk Sealed Off Amid Kashmir Shutdown In Protest Against Iran Supreme Leader Killing\" class=\"undefined\"\/><\/div>\n<section class=\"D3Wk1  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  \" style=\"top:0px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>SRINAGAR: Police on Monday used tear gas shells to disperse people protesting against the killing of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, amid restrictions imposed in all districts as a precautionary measure.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"2\"\/>According to police sources, police resorted to tear gas shelling on protesters near Bemina Degree College after they attempted to march forward.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> <\/p>\n<div class=\"lOvcW vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"k7lcu\">\n<p>Srinagar&#8217;s Lal Chowk Sealed Off Amid Kashmir Shutdown In Protest Against Iran Supreme Leader Killing<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Authorities in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/kashmir\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Kashmir<\/a> imposed restrictions across the Valley and reduced mobile internet speeds in the wake of widespread protests on Sunday.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>Major demonstrations were reported from Lal Chowk and Saida Kadal in Srinagar, as well as Budgam, Bandipora and several other areas on Sunday. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Lal Chowk, the epicentre of the protests, was completely sealed off.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in large numbers along Airport Road and other sensitive locations. Concertina wires have been laid on key roads, and security checks were intensified, with vehicles being stopped and frisked at multiple checkpoints. Shops and business establishments across several parts of the Valley remained closed.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>Kashmir\u2019s chief priest, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, who heads the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ulama (MMU), a conglomerate of religious organisations in Jammu and Kashmir, on Sunday evening issued a joint statement expressing grief and condemning the killing as a blatant act of aggression by the United States and Israel. The MMU appealed to people to observe a voluntary strike on Monday to register their protest in a peaceful manner.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"26\"\/>\u201cThe people of J&amp;K collectively condemn this brutality and the ongoing aggression against Iran, and the massacre of innocent girl students in Minab,\u201d Mirwaiz said. \u201cIn this hour of immense sorrow, our hearts beat with the resilient people of Iran.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/>Ruling National Conference MP from Srinagar, Aga Ruhullah Mehdi, condemned the restrictions and closure of Lal Chowk, calling it &#8220;a disgrace.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>\u201cIt is available for dance and music parties, which is the symbolic identity you want to attach to it. But when people come out to mourn, to stand in solidarity with the innocent lives being torn apart, it threatens you in spite of the fact that the demonstrations were entirely peaceful.\u201d<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/srinagar\/iran-israel-conflict-massive-protest-in-srinagar-over-ayatollah-ali-khameneis-killing-police-use-tear-gas-shells-to-disperse-crowd\/articleshow\/128939360.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SRINAGAR: Police on Monday used tear gas shells to disperse people protesting against the killing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[811,10731,10668,10302,10730,10728,10724,10723,10725,10726,10727,10729],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-iran-s-supreme","tag-kashmir","tag-khamenei","tag-lal-chowk","tag-saida-kadal","tag-srinagar-latest-news","tag-srinagar-news","tag-srinagar-news-live","tag-srinagar-news-today","tag-today-news-srinagar","tag-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}