Tens of thousands of demonstrators packed the streets outside the former US embassy in Tehran in the biggest anti-US rally in years, a show of support for hard-line opponents of President Hassan Rouhani’s outreach to Washington.
Crowds of Iranians shouted “death to America” as they marked the 34th anniversary of the takeover of the city’s US embassy, which led to 52 Americans being held hostage for months.
Protesters waved anti-US banners, chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel”, while burning US and Israeli flags. Effigies of President Barack Obama, secretary of state John Kerry and Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahu, could be seen held aloft by protesters.
The protests were reported to be the biggest in years, with tens of thousands in attendance, and despite attempts by the US and Iran to thaw diplomatic relations after years of hostility.
Al Jazeera’s Soraya Lennie, reporting from Tehran, said that the the opinion that the US was the “Great Satan” was hard to shift in some.
“A poll recently in Iran showed that most Iranians do favour renewed relations with the United States and a normalisation of ties, she said.
“But for the people here, and this small minority in Iran, their minds will not be changed. They still see the United States as the “Great Satan” and it appears as not much happening, diplomatically-speaking, that can change their minds.”
Similar gatherings were reported in other cities across the Islamic republic, according to footage broadcast on state television, in what appeared to be some of the largest November 4 rallies in years.
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“I’m all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters. ”
Frank Lloyd Wright
How nice to see Obama’s chevra rallying around the Stars and Stripes.
now that diplomacy has been working so well I think we should ease sanctions on our new friends the iranians
These chants are not Islam. They are the issue of their own making. These people will be stepped on and their can will be kicked because they have no future and they want to destroy yours. Good bye Frauds!