(11 Aug 2006)
1. Wide of demonstrators chanting slogans
2. Poster showing Iran's supreme leaders and Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah
3. Wide of demonstrators chanting "Death to Israel and America"
4. Man holding poster of Nasrallah
5. Wide of demonstration
6. Hezbollah poster
7. Demonstrators stepping on Israeli flag
8. Various of burning of the Israeli and American flags
9. Ayatollah Emami Kashani approaching the podium to lead the Friday Prayers
10. Worshippers chanting "Death to Israel and America"
11. Wide of Ayatollah Emami Kashani at podium
12. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Ayatollah Emami Kashani, Friday Prayers leader:
"The more this war lasts, the more corpses of the Israelis are laid around and with God's help the dignity of Hezbollah rises day by day."
13. Wide of worshippers chanting "Death to Israel"
14. SOUNDBITE: (Farsi) Ayatollah Emami Kashani, Friday Prayers leader:
"The unqualified Security Council and the United Nations are serving the Israelis and they decide the conditions the way they wish. This is a disgrace for the international community."
15. Wide of prayers ceremony
STORYLINE:
Demonstrators in Iran held an anti-Israeli protest on Friday as a prominent cleric predicted that the ongoing conflict would lead to more Israeli casualties.
In Tehran, demonstrators chanted anti-Israeli slogans and burnt American and Israel flags during a protest against the Israeli military campaign in Lebanon.
Earlier, Ayatollah Emami Kashani, a member of the Experts Assembly which selects the Supreme leader, addressed worshippers at Friday prayers.
Kashani criticised the UN Security Council as "serving the Israelis" and described it as "a disgrace for the international community."
A resolution from the Security Council has been slow going, but France expressed cautious optimism that a vote would be held on Friday to end the Mideast crisis.
A French foreign ministry spokesman, Denis Simonneau, said several sticking points remained in efforts to hammer out an agreement on an updated version of a US-French draft resolution.
The U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, also said a vote was possible Friday.
Negotiations were set to continue in New York in Friday, with the speed and details of an eventual Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the mandate of a possible beefed-up U.N. peacekeeping force among the issues to resolve.
Also being discussed, Simonneau said, were Lebanese reservations about giving the U.N. force in southern Lebanon a broader mandate to open fire if it comes under attack, and the future of the contested Chebaa farms near the Israeli-Syrian-Lebanese border.
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