Iranian marchers chant 'Death to America' on eve of U.S. oil sanctions

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters




NOVEMBER 4, 2018 / 4:56 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

Parisa Hafezi
4 MIN READ

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians chanting “Death to America” rallied on Sunday to mark both the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy during the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the imminent reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran’s key oil sector.

Thousands of students in the government-organized rally in the capital Tehran, broadcast live by state television, burned the Stars and Stripes, an effigy of Uncle Sam and pictures of President Donald Trump outside the leafy downtown compound that once housed the U.S. mission.

Hardline students stormed the embassy on Nov. 4, 1979 soon after the fall of the U.S.-backed Shah, and 52 Americans were held hostage there for 444 days. The two countries have been enemies, on opposite sides of Middle East conflict, ever since.

Iranian state media said millions turned out for rallies in most cities and towns around the country, swearing allegiance to the clerical establishment and its hardline top authority, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The turnout figure could not be independently confirmed by Reuters.

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[still_one]

1. Since Reuters thought it necessary to bring up the Shah, why didn't they bring up how the Shah came

to power in the first place

[blm]

2. Which is why the sanctions were timed to kick in the day before US election.

It’s disgusting that Republican administrations think this way. Like the Bin Laden video just a few days before 2004 election.

The GOP is pure evil at this point.

[KPN]

3. THIS. Hate to say it, but ...

they may actually be witnessing it as they chant. Some karma for you there GOP ... but you’re too ignorant to see it.

[Hortensis]

4. Iranian hard-righters behaving just like our troublemakers here.

As predictable as anything else in this world, including that these are the destroyers of freedoms and then whole nations. We here and everywhere else they've come to power in this backslide of civilization need to get them out and to reestablish rationality and decency.