Iran's metro police arrested two men dressed in army air defense uniforms on Wednesday after they held up the pre-1979 Iranian flag at a Tehran station.

Axar.az informs, citing Iran International, a video circulating on social media showed the pair unfurling the green-white-red banner emblazoned with the Lion and Sun emblem— a potent symbol of the ousted Pahlavi monarchy and frequent emblem in anti-government protests—on a crowded platform.

A video circulating on social media appears to show two men wearing Iranian army uniforms holding up Iran’s pre-1979 Islamic revolution flag at a Tehran metro station. pic.twitter.com/XiPC6ZLFZL

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