Protester scales Iranian Embassy in London, tears down regime flag, hoists pre-revolution symbol

An anti-regime protester scaled the balcony of Iran’s Embassy successful London connected Friday and tore down the Islamic Republic’s flag, replacing it with Iran’s pre-1979 "Lion and Sun" emblem, video shows.

The demonstrator climbed the beforehand of the embassy gathering successful Kensington earlier ripping down the regime’s emblem and hoisting the historical awesome associated with Iran’s monarchy anterior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution arsenic a ample assemblage of anti-regime protesters cheered on.

The Metropolitan Police said officers responded to the country and made 2 arrests — 1 for aggravated trespass and battle connected an exigency worker, and different for aggravated trespass. Police said they are besides seeking different idiosyncratic for trespass. It was not instantly wide whether the protester who tore down the emblem was among those arrested.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Iran’s Embassy successful London for remark but did not person a effect by the clip of publication.

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A protester stands connected the balcony of the Iranian Embassy successful London aft replacing the Islamic Republic’s emblem with Iran’s pre-1979 "Lion and Sun" emblem during a demonstration. Video and images of the incidental circulated connected societal media. (Pegah Janbakhsh via Storyful)

The embassy protestation comes arsenic Iran faces its astir important question of unrest successful years. President Trump has warned the authorities that the U.S. volition support protesters if necessary.

Potkin Azarmehr, a British-Iranian journalist, said the existent unrest stands successful crisp opposition to Iran’s 2009 Green Movement, erstwhile protesters openly questioned whether the Obama medication supported them.

"What a opposition to Obama’s time, erstwhile protesters successful Iran were chanting, ‘Obama, are you with america oregon with them?’" Azarmehr told Fox News Digital.

"Any planetary support, whether astatine the grassroots oregon authorities level, is encouraging," helium said.

He said planetary attraction matters to protesters connected the ground, but questioned the deficiency of disposable demonstrations by Western activistic groups.

Iran net blackout activated the centralized termination power to conceal alleged crimes arsenic protests surge, NetBlocks CEO Alp Toker says connectivity dropped beneath 2%. (Sadegh Nikgostar ATPImages/Getty Images)

"The question is wherever are the Western activistic elite protesters? Why are they not protesting? Are they connected the broadside of the ayatollahs? An archaic spiritual apartheid?"

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Demonstrations that began connected Dec. 28 implicit economical grievances person since dispersed nationwide, evolving into a nonstop situation to Iran’s clerical leadership. Solidarity protests with Iranian demonstrators person besides emerged successful different large European cities, including Paris and Berlin. A protestation besides took spot extracurricular the White House successful Washington, D.C.

As of Saturday, astatine slightest 72 radical person been killed and much than 2,300 detained successful Iran-based protests, according to the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

Some protests person included chants supporting Iran’s erstwhile monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who died successful 1980. His son, Reza Pahlavi, has publically called for continued demonstrations. The Iranian authorities has besides chopped nationwide net access.

At a property league successful Washington, D.C., connected Friday, Trump said Iran was facing mounting pressure.

"Iran’s successful large trouble," Trump said. "It looks to maine that the radical are taking implicit definite cities that cipher thought were truly imaginable conscionable a fewer weeks ago. We’re watching the concern precise carefully."

Trump warned the United States would respond forcefully if the authorities resorts to wide violence.

A conveyance burns during protests successful Tehran, Iran, connected Jan. 8, 2026. The nationwide protests began successful Tehran's Grand Bazaar successful precocious December implicit worsening economical conditions, past dispersed to universities and different cities, with slogans shifting from economical grievances to governmental and anti-government demands. (Khosh Iran/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

"We’ll beryllium hitting them precise hard wherever it hurts," Trump said. "And that doesn’t mean boots connected the ground, but it means hitting them very, precise hard wherever it hurts."

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has signaled a coming clampdown contempt U.S. warnings, according to The Associated Press.

Tehran escalated its threats Saturday, with Iran’s lawyer general, Mohammad Movahedi Azad, informing that anyone taking portion successful protests would beryllium considered an "enemy of God," a complaint that carries the decease penalty. The statement, carried by Iranian authorities television, said adjacent those who "helped rioters" would look the charge.

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"Prosecutors indispensable cautiously and without delay, by issuing indictments, hole the grounds for the proceedings and decisive confrontation with those who, by betraying the federation and creating insecurity, question overseas domination implicit the country," the connection read.

"Proceedings indispensable beryllium conducted without leniency, compassion oregon indulgence."

Fox News’ Efrat Lachter, Greg Norman and The Associated Press contributed to this report.