Nigeria’s Iran-Aligned Shia Movement Takes to Streets After Khamenei Killing
The Islamic Movement in Nigeria is an Iran-aligned Shia organization with documented ties to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. When U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on February 28, the reverberations reached Nigeria within hours. Members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, commonly known as the IMN or Shi’ites, staged protests across Lagos, Abuja, Kano, Sokoto, Gombe, Kaduna, Bauchi, Yobe,