‘Our Enemy Is Here’: Iran Protesters Demand Leaders Quit After Plane Is Shot Down

Flowers and candles are placed in front of the portraits of the flight crew members of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed in Iran, at a memorial at the Boryspil International Airport outside Kiev, Ukraine, on Jan. 11, 2020. Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

DUBAI—Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, putting pressure on the country’s leadership after the military admitted it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner at a time when Tehran was fearing U.S. airstrikes.

“They are lying that our enemy is America, our enemy is right here,” a group of protesters outside a university in Tehran chanted, according to video clips posted on Twitter.