WATCH: Protesters in Iran REFUSE to walk on US, Israeli flags, chant ‘Our enemy is in Iran, not America’

Iranian protesters refuse to walk on US, Israeli flags – watch
A few people who did walk over the flags were booed by protesters in the area with chants of ‘Shame on you.’ Some reports said that the protesters chanted ‘Our enemy is in Iran, not America.’

As anti-government protests swept Iran in the aftermath of the downing of a Ukrainian plane, students from Tehran avoided walking on massive American and Israel flags placed on the road in front of them.

Dear @EU_eeas @JosepBorrellF:

These courageous Iranian students who refuse to trample the U.S. & Israeli flags represent the hope for a better Middle East. Engage with and promote them instead of their oppressors, and maybe Iran-backed wars & terror across the region will end. https://t.co/osbjTbTnG2

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 12, 2020

Videos circulated on social media showed Iranian students parting as they approached the large flags, taking pains to avoid stepping on them. A few people who did walk over the flags were booed by protesters in the area with chants of “Shame on you.”

Some reports said that the protesters near the flags chanted “Our enemy is in Iran, not America.”<

Student protesters at Tehran’s Beheshti University take pains to avoid trampling on US and Israeli flags painted on entrance walkway pic.twitter.com/mqqzT0D9gK

— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) January 12, 2020

Hillel Neuer, the executive director of NGO UN Watch, tweeted in response “these courageous Iranian students who refuse to trample the U.S. & Israeli flags represent the hope for a better Middle East.”
Protests spread throughout Tehran and multiple other Iranian cities after the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) took responsibility on Saturday for the downing of a Ukrainian civilian airliner on Wednesday, killing all on board.
Families of the Iranian victims from the Ukrainian plane have reportedly been warned not to speak to foreign media at risk of not receiving their relatives’ bodies, according to Al-Arabiya. Similar threats to withhold relatives’ bodies were used during anti-government protests in November.
Robert Macaire, the British ambassador to Tehran, was arrested by security forces amid protesters in Tehran, but was released after a few hours, according to Radio Farda. The ambassador “began to provoke and organize the protesters and was arrested inside a shop after security forces became suspicious of him,” according to the Iranian Tasnim news agency. He allegedly filmed the protests.
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab stated on Saturday that Macaire’s arrest “without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law.”
“The Iranian government is at a cross-roads moment. It can continue its march towards pariah status with all the political and economic isolation that entails, or take steps to deescalate tensions and engage in a diplomatic path forwards,” added Raab.
Informed sources told Iran International that civilian flights were allowed on the night of the IRGC’s missile attack against US bases in Iraq as a “human shield measure.”
Videos of the protests showed demonstrators shouting with chants against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the regime at large. Security forces are present and have used some anti-riot measures such as tear gas, but so far no casualties have been reported. Internet may have been shut off in some parts of Tehran. Some reports claimed that protesters in Tehran tore up pictures of former IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani.
Former speaker of the Iranian Parliament Mehdi Karroubi told Khamenei in a letter that “Undoubtedly, you are not qualified for the leadership as is required by the Constitution,” according to Radio Farda.
Karroubi also blamed Khamenei for the suppression and murder of protesters in November, vote-rigging in the 2009 presidential elections and political chain murders from 1988-1998. Karroubi has been under house arrest since 2011.

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Dan Knight

4 years ago

… and that’s why God loves everybody.

… a lot of people risked their lives to say that

… speaking real truth to real power

… Tehran is run by a government that has slaughtered more than one million of their own subjects

… speaking out against I-aya-ama Crotch-itch

… is very, very, courageous.

It’s not like a multi-millionaire insulting Christians and normal people in the West.

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felix1999

4 years ago

Reply to  Dan Knight

God certainly is patient….He knows who will get on board and who won’t.
Once that point is reached, then prophecy will go through the final stage.
Right now we are just setting the table for it.

Iran particuler is going through a MASSIVE Christian conversionand so is Turkey!
It’s been going on for a couple of years and Iran is beginning to crack down on them beacuse htey feel threatened.

Iranian Youths Mass Converting to Christianity Despite Islamic Indoctrination, Government’s Efforts
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter
https://www.christianpost.com/news/iranian-youths-mass-converting-to-christianity-despite-islamic-indoctrination-governments-efforts-195421/

Iranians Are Converting To Evangelical Christianity In Turkey
December 14, 201810:07 AM ET
FARIBA NAWA
https://www.npr.org/2018/12/14/669662264/iranians-are-converting-to-evangelical-christianity-in-turkey

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Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg

4 years ago

I’m sorry, this is ridiculous and obviously propaganda.

Iranians hate non-muslims with a passion regardless of what we do or don’t do.

Death to America and Death to the leader of Iran chants are evidence of psychopathic behavior and thinking, not courage. They’re all dangerous.

Good luck with the propaganda on Iranians. They have identical issues with overthrowing all non-muslim governments and forcing Sharia on everyone as any other Muslim group.

Thinking otherwise is ignorance.

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mjazzguitar

4 years ago

Reply to  Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg

Many were educated in the West and seek a secular government.

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Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg

4 years ago

Reply to  mjazzguitar

Less than .5% that is one half of a percent. And when it comes to that one half of a percent you can’t trust what they tell you upfront.

Islam has a mandate to deceive non-believers. You can’t trust anything a Muslim says. It doesn’t even matter if they sounded genuine or kind or friendly. Most of its fake! You cannot know for certain if that person is genuine or if they’re just playing you. Talk to any Muslim and they will tell you they’re afraid of other Muslims for that very reason. They don’t know who they can trust. They don’t know if they’re going to say the wrong thing and lose their heads because that person has disagreed with their religious lifestyle or lack thereof.

I know several Muslims who don’t go to mosque for fear that other Muslims will learn where they live and how they live and kill them for not living up to whatever stupid standards other Muslims think they should be living! And these are people who wear Islamic clothing and are very pious and devout Muslims! They’re afraid of extremists who are more extreme than they are. We really screwed up by bringing them here.

That’s a hornet’s nest you just simply don’t want to deal with. Thanks for your two cents. Most people are as naive as you are.

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mjazzguitar

4 years ago

Reply to  Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg

A lot of Iranians are putting their lives on the line to combat the islamic dictatorship in Iran.

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MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet

4 years ago

Reply to  mjazzguitar

To replace it with WHAT? The Arabpig Spring was supposedly a “secular” movement as well but guess what the f’ing muslum vermin voted in democratically? That’s right Sharia’ law.

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felix1999

4 years ago

Iranian female Olympian defects, calls out regime’s ‘hypocrisy’ as she exits country permanently
By Brie Stimson | Fox News 1/12/19
…
#KimiaAlizadeh, Iran’s only female Olympic medalist, has rejected the regime’s oppression of women,” Ortagus wrote. “She has defected for a life of security, happiness, and freedom. #Iran will continue to lose more strong women unless it learns to empower and support them.”
…
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/irans-only-female-olympic-medalist-calls-out-governments-hypocrisy-as-she-exits-country-permanently

Think the lying MSM will rethink thir lying? How about Linda Sourface? Will she stop lying about Islam? LOL!

Trump issues warning to Iran: ‘Do not kill your protesters … the USA is watching’
Andrew O’ReillyBy Andrew O’Reilly | Fox News 1/12/19
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-issues-warning-to-iran-do-not-kill-your-protestors-the-usa-is-watching

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Ziggy46

4 years ago

There is a deep irony in Iran when Iranians who loathe the Theocratic, terrorist regime refuse to walk on the flags of the USA and the State of Israel. Meanwhile, the perfidious Democrats, and its tagalong Marxist-Nazi-Jihads defile the the US’s flag and that of Israel.

Their treasonous alignment with Iran’s Terrorist Regime, pro-Jihad while violently anti-Semitic/Israel, and anti-America and its Constitution. The downfall of this vile regime is a must, as is the downfall of the Democrats and those of its ilk.

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LittleRoot_48

4 years ago

They have more respect for our flag than Democrats do.

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mtman2

4 years ago

Karroubi is one courageous man calling out Khamenei as he did – TRUMP should call for his release + exile to the “hated America”.

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