Thursday, November 5, 2015

Iranians burn flags, Obama effigies to mark anniversary of Tehran’s U.S. embassy takeover


ByPAMELA GELLER on November 4, 2015
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“If the embassy opened…I would set it on fire,” added a housewife named Alibakhshi. “Me and my children are ready to…give our lives.”
And still Obama insists on nuking up these savages.
Could Obama (and thereby America) look any more ridiculous? Could the stakes be higher?
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“Iranians Mark Anniversary of Tehran’s U.S. Embassy,” by by Ali Arouzi, NBC News, November 4, 2015
TEHRAN — American flags and effigies of President Barack Obama were set ablaze on Wednesday as thousands gathered to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the Iranian capital’s U.S. Embassy.
New and large anti-U.S. propaganda posters — including one mocking the raising of the American flag at Iwo Jima — were spotted in Tehran.
An NBC News reporter estimated the crowds at the demonstration numbered in the thousands.
“We are here to say, ‘down with the USA,'” a 59-year-old teacher who gave his name as Abdolah said. “We will never.. let to open this embassy again. It was not embassy — it was a place for spies.”
“If the embassy opened…I would set it on fire,” added a housewife named Alibakhshi. “Me and my children are ready to…give our lives.”
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Iranian demonstrators burn a representation of the U.S. flag during an annual rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, marking 36th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy by militant Iranian students, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2015. The annual state-organized rally Wednesday drawing greater attention this year, as Iranian hardliners are intensifying a campaign to undermine President Hassan Rouhani's outreach to the West following a landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers in July. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Anti-U.S. slogans were also chanted — just a day after Iran’s supreme leader explained that the familiar “Death to America” refrain was aimed at policies, not people.
Students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979 and took dozens of Americans hostage. The hostages were held for more than 400 days and the crisis prompted the U.S. to sever ties with Iran.
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