Happy Struggle Against Global Arrogance Day!
In case you missed it. Millions rejoice at the Death to America Day commemoration of humiliation of the Great Satan, taking of the Den of Spies. Tehran Times:
TEHRAN -– Millions of students staged anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli demonstrations across the country on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the Iranian students’ capture of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, the martyrdom of tens of students by the Shah’s regime in 1978, and also the exile of the founder of the Islamic Republic, late Imam Khomeini, in 1964.
The day known as the Aban 13th (Nov. 4) is named the National Day of Struggle against Global Arrogance or the Students’ Day.
Demonstrators congregated in front of the former U.S. embassy building in Tehran, which is referred to as the “den of spies”, and chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans, voicing their support for Iran’s right to use peaceful nuclear energy.
A statement issued at the end of the event declared that the United States is still the country’s “number one enemy.”
It also emphasized that the only way to establish security and stability in the region is that occupiers leave Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine.
In his address to the demonstrators in Tehran, Interior Minister Mostafa Purmohammadi said, “Today’s world is not the world of guns, dollars, and sanctions.”
If it was so, after four years of military presence in Iraq, spending billions of dollars, and deploying hundreds of thousand troops, the U.S. should have been able to achieve its objectives, he stated.
But now it is not the U.S. that is determining Iraqi nation’s destiny, he explained.
“The U.S. has designed a triangle of military, cultural and economic threats against the Iranian nation,” he added.
Addressing the rally, Education Minister Mahmud Farshidi also stated that Iran is the greatest challenge to U.S. foreign policy and this proves the importance of the Islamic Republic in the region.
He also praised the vigilance of the youth and the religious and political knowledge of the students.
What, no A’jad? But I thought he was a hero of the Struggle Against Global Arrogance! Those claims are openly mocked.
Al-Jazeera’s got your “Death to America Day” vid here. Apparently the big problem is the Bush, America’s desire to rule the world and deny the religion of peace access to nuclear energy. Measured hope for improvement under new Great Satan admin, but no one’s holding their breath.
Topics: Iran
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:00 am Comments (3) on Monday, November 5, 2007
3 Responses to “Happy Struggle Against Global Arrogance Day!”
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November 5th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Apparently the big problem is the Bush, America’s desire to rule the world and deny the religion of peace access to nuclear energy.
Okay, at the risk of sounding glib, this is a problem?
November 6th, 2007 at 3:46 am
But aren’t they always telling us how much the Iranian people, as opposed to the rulers, really, really like Americans? Didn’t some major news outlet do a whole thing on this? Fickle people, the Iranians.
November 7th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I think there is a lot of pro American/anti mullah sentiment inside Iran.
Mass demonstrations against the infidels would be welcomed & encouraged (even organized) by the regime.
Whereas any individuals (like this one) are taken out of circulation.
Iran arrests student leader
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=071106132649.dfrgi9c7&show_article=1