TEHRAN (FNA)- Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani said the racist Israel may be the most concerned regime in the world over the dismantling of the symbols of racism in the West.

After centuries, the voice of the oppressed has been heard and perhaps the racist Zionism is more concerned than any other regime about the collapse of the symbols of racism in the West, Shamkhani wrote in his Twitter account on Friday.

“Because they know after the statues, it will be their turn,” he added.

Last week, a statue of 18th-century slave trader Robert Milligan was removed from its plinth outside a museum in the British capital after officials decided it was no longer acceptable to the local community.

The statue in front of the Museum of London Docklands came into focus after demonstrators taking part in a global anti-racism protest movement on Sunday tore down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol, Southwest England, and dumped it into the river, Al-Jazeera reported.

The pulling down of Milligan's statue on Tuesday came as London's Mayor Sadiq Khan said more statues of imperialist figures could be removed from the United Kingdom's streets as the May 25 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, at the hands of white police in the US city of Minneapolis continued to spark protests and drive change around the world.

On the day Floyd was being buried in his hometown of Houston, Texas, Khan said he was setting up a commission to ensure the UK capital's monuments reflected its diversity. It will review statues, murals, street art, street names and other memorials and consider which legacies should be celebrated, the mayor's office said.

"It is an uncomfortable truth that our nation and city owes a large part of its wealth to its role in the slave trade and while this is reflected in our public realm, the contribution of many of our communities to life in our capital has been willfully ignored," Khan said.

International protests against racial injustice and police violence sparked by Floyd's killing show no sign of abating. 

In Britain, where more than 200 demonstrations have been held so far, people gathered in London’s Parliament Square for a vigil timed to coincide with Floyd's funeral.

Elsewhere in the UK, demonstrators gathered to demand the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, a Victorian imperialist in Southern Africa who made a fortune from mines and endowed the University of Oxford's Rhodes scholarships.

Several hundred supporters of the Rhodes Must Fall group chanted "Take it down" before holding a silent sit-down vigil in the street to memorialize Floyd.

A large statue of Rhodes that had stood since 1934 was removed from South Africa's University of Cape Town in April 2015, after a student-led campaign that also urged the university to increase its numbers of Black lecturers and to make the curriculum less Eurocentric.

In Edinburgh, Scotland, there are calls to tear down a statue of Henry Dundas, an 18th-century politician who delayed Britain’s abolition of slavery by 15 years.

The leader of Edinburgh City Council, Adam McVey, said he would “have absolutely no sense of loss if the Dundas statue was removed and replaced with something else or left as a plinth”.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged that it was "a cold reality" that people of colour in Britain experienced discrimination, but said those who attacked police or desecrated public monuments should face "the full force of the law"