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Offline bijou

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Iranians stage mass protest against 'Great Satan' US
« on: November 04, 2010, 08:55:38 AM »
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Thousands of Iranians chanted "Death to America" as they staged Thursday a mass protest against the "Great Satan" to mark the 31st anniversary of the capture of the American embassy by Islamist students.

Tehran, meanwhile, welcomed Washington's decision to list shadowy rebel group Jundallah as a foreign terrorist organisation, saying it was the "right" move, but reiterated its allegation that the US supports the Sunni network.

Iran annually on November 4 marks the anniversary of the capture of the US embassy by Islamist students in Tehran in 1979, months after the Islamic revolution which toppled the US-backed shah. ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101104/wl_afp/iranpoliticsushostageanniversary_20101104105838



Offline JohnnyReb

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Re: Iranians stage mass protest against 'Great Satan' US
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 09:05:55 AM »
So, they have a national "Jimmy Carter" day, huh?
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin