In fact, it's a badge of honor. Who would want to be identified with lying, land-stealing and genocidal mass-murder?
"Iran ousts cleric from annual service; Ex-president had backed opponents of Ahmadinejad" by Nasser Karimi, Associated Press | September 17, 2009
TEHRAN - a key anti-Israel day....
Quds Day....
the last Friday of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan....
Quds Day, an annual event that showcases Iran’s anti-Israeli stance and is marked by government-organized rallies in support of Palestinians. Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem....
Right, as if the government really had to prod them. Then again, this is the one-sided prism and bias Americans get when they open a newspaper.
Customarily on Quds Day, Tehran residents gather for pro-Palestinian rallies, march through the streets, and converge for prayers....
So NOW being PRO-PALESTINIAN is equated with being anti-Israel, according to AmeriKa's jewspapers??
a pro-Palestinian rally....
The country’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has final say on all state matters, last week warned the opposition against using Quds Day for purposes other than demonstrating solidarity with the Palestinians.--more --"
So what happened, and how did my biased AmeriKan MSM cover it, folks?
"Iran opposition defies ban on protesting again; Government’s supporters hit streets, too" by Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post | September 19, 2009
TEHRAN - Hard-line supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clashed yesterday with protesters who defied a ban on opposition demonstrations to stage the first major street protests in two months, a massive show of force during an annual government-backed rally against Israel.
Progovernment demonstrators attempted to attack two opposition leaders, Mohammad Khatami, former president, and Mir Hossein Mousavi, former prime minister, at separate protest sites in Tehran, but both escaped unharmed, news agencies and opposition websites reported.
So did it even happen?
Two other senior opposition figures, including influential Shi’ite Muslim cleric and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president, also appeared at the protests in a rare show of defiance against Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who had warned the opposition not to disrupt Quds Day, the annual day of public support for Palestine.
Which -- ipso facto -- translates into being anti-Israel!
Well, yeah, now!
Instead, more than 100,000 opposition supporters took to the streets in Tehran, and similar demonstrations were reported in several other Iranian cities. Although the protesters were outnumbered by government supporters observing Quds Day, it was the largest opposition turnout since mid-July....
Yesterday’s competing demonstrations turned violent after security forces intervened in the afternoon, and riots erupted at several locations in downtown Tehran, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Security forces initially seemed overwhelmed by the number of opposition supporters....
Pffft! Are you TIRED of the DOUBLE-TALK yet?
And since the war-mongering, criminal AmeriKan MSM can't get the nuke bomb charges to stick, they revert to that old saw of anti-Semitism.
In a speech at Friday prayers marking Quds Day, Ahmadinejad denounced Israel and the West, questioned whether the Holocaust occurred, and charged that it was a pretext for occupying Palestine.
I'm sick of arguing about it.
Read this: Israel Denies Holocausts
As opposition supporters marched outside the gates of Tehran University’s prayer ground, Ahmadinejad defended Iran’s rejection of the Israeli state and called the Holocaust a “lie’’ and an “unprovable and mythical claim.’’
Well, if the SHOE FITS, then HIT YOURSELF WITH IT, lying NaZionist bastards!!
All right, now that is TWICE in the SAME ARTICLE the American MSM has POUNDED that CANARD!
And SOME DICTATOR, huh, what with all the PROTESTERS outside!
Worshipers responded by shouting such traditional slogans as “Death to Israel’’ and “Death to America.’’
As opposed to singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb, Bomb, bomb Iran," like stoo-pid 'murkns who think they are funny, right?
Outside the compound, antigovernment protesters shouted, “Death to you.’’ There were also chants of “Death to the dictator’’ and “Not Gaza, not Lebanon - our life is for Iran,’’ a critical reference to the Ahmadinejad government’s support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon’s Hezbollah....
Imagine US CITIZENS CRITICIZING the AID to ISRAEL, huh?
Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel and the West and again questioned whether the Holocaust happened....
Yup, just in case you DID NOT GET the PROPAGANDA POINT, the MSM mentions it a THIRD TIME in the SAME ARTICLE!!
Clear now, readers, with what war-mongering message the lying AmeriKan MSM wants you to get?
In Washington, a top adviser to President Obama said the president will not meet with Ahmadinejad at the United Nations next week....
Obama's loss.
A week before Quds Day, Khamenei, Iran’s top religious and political leader, had warned that the ceremonies must not be turned into an occasion for “discord and division.’’ The day of protest - Quds is Arabic for Jerusalem - is observed in several countries but originated in Iran, where Islamic revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini established it in 1979.
Yup, not much about it being a PRO-PALESTINIAN DAY in this piece.
Just ONE REFERENCE as opposed to THREE ANTI-ISRAEL POINTS, 'eh?
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Btw, one must wonder WHY it is that IRAN JEWS (the SECOND LARGEST BLOCK of Jews in the Middle East outside of Israel) are living in home at peace if they are hated so much -- and why the Zionist AmeriKan MSM OMITTED THAT FACT!
