On Quds Day 1985 , amid the " war of the cities " of the Iran – Iraq War , Iraqi bombers and long-range missiles struck 14 cities , reportedly killing at least 78 people and wounding 326 . According to the Islamic Republic News Agency , the sound of the exploding bombs and missiles in Tehran was drowned out by the crowds chanting " War , war until victory 3/8 . " On Quds Day 1987 , held shortly after the outbreak of the First Intifada , effigies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Israeli leaders were burned in Iran " as a sign of Moslem nations ' revolutionary wrath against Zionism , imperialism and apartheid . " In Tehran , President Ali Khamenei said the Palestinians " should resist and fight Zionism . This is the message of the whole Iranian people who chant the ' Death to Israel ' slogan . " On Quds Day 1989 , Iranian parliament speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani said that Palestinians should kill Americans and other Westerners in retaliation for attacks by the Israeli military in the occupied territories : " If in retaliation for every Palestinian martyred in Palestine they will kill and execute , not inside Palestine , five Americans or Britons or Frenchmen , they ( Israelis ) could not continue these wrongs . It is not hard to kill Americans or Frenchman . It is a bit difficult to kill ( Israelis ) . But there are so many ( Americans and Frenchman ) everywhere in the world . " Fearing an Israeli military strike , Hezbollah cancelled its annual Quds Day rallies in 1992 for the first time in the group 's history . 10 days earlier , a suicide bombing in Buenos Aires , Argentina destroyed the Israeli embassy there and killed 29 people injured 242 others . Hezbollah was implicated in the attack
suicide bombing in Buenos Aires
1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires
List of Quds Day demonstrations