IRANIAN DEMONSTRATORS CALL FOR ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION
THAT TONGUE LASHING IRAN'S PRESIDENT GOT YESTERDAY FOR CALLING FOR ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION REALLY SHOOK HIM UP.... NOT.
Attending an anti-Israel rally in Tehran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his remarks were "just" - and the criticism did not "have any validity". His initial comment provoked anger from many governments, and prompted Israel to demand Iran's expulsion from the UN. ....
Tens of thousands of Iranians took part in the rally in Tehran which Iran organises every year on the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan to show solidarity with the Palestinian struggle. Shouting "Death to Israel, death to the Zionists", the protesters dragged Israeli flags along the ground and then set them on fire.
Many carried posters and placards sporting the slogan "Israel should be wiped off the map".
Joining the protest, Mr Ahmadinejad said: "My words were the Iranian nation's words. "Westerners are free to comment, but their reactions are invalid," Mr Ahmadinejad told the official Irna news agency.
Some demonstrators wore white shrouds in a symbolic gesture expressing readiness to die for their cause. "Ahmadinejad talks on behalf of all Iranians. We are ready to die for Palestine," Mohammad Mirzayi, a member of a volunteer Shia militia group, told the Reuters news agency.
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