Posted on 01/11/2020 1:12:01 PM PST by be-baw
What began as vigils for the students killed when Iran’s Revolutionary Guard mistakenly shot down an airliner turned into large anti-government protests Saturday, with thousands of students chanting “Death to Liars!” and calling for the resignation of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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“I wish I had died, and I wouldn’t have seen such an incident,” said Iranian Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, the Guards’ aerospace commander, at a press conference. But his claim that a “request had been made to clear the sky from civil flights at that time, but it did not happen due to reservations” infuriated Ukraine International Airlines.
The airline’s president and vice president said at a briefing the plane received no warning from Tehran airport about a possible threat to its safety before it took off for Kiev. The airline also denied the aircraft veered off its normal course, after an Iranian military statement said the plane flew close to a sensitive Revolutionary Guards site.
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It’s going to come down to which side is the more ruthless.
Glad they’re getting some coverage
The students will get lot’s of coverage from the U.S media and loads of support on U.S campuses /s
U.S. students are probably holding vigils in support of the Iranian regime.
I find it hillarious that they are basically supporting a regime that puts homosexuals to death.
To the leftists, Communism and Islam rank ahead of LGBTQWERTY, but the Alphabet People are too blinded by their own fabulousness to realize that. When they do, it will be too late.
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