Iranian students demonstrated in front of the foreign ministry in Tehran on Saturday in protest of the assassination of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, which Iran has blamed on Israel, with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani vowing revenge on the “Zionists” for his killing.
The students, who were identified by AFP as members of the Basij, the paramilitary unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, burned images of President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump as well as representations of US and Israeli flags.
Protesters waved signs in Hebrew, with one of the signs stating: “Revenge means Tel Aviv being burned down,” according to a report by Kikar H’Shabbos.
The students demonstrated in front of the ministry to protest against Iran’s foreign minister who participated in the negotiations for the 2015 nuclear deal, foreshadowing the backlash Iranian officials may face if it considers reentering a nuclear deal with the US and EU. Protests took place in other Iranian cities as well.
A student organization published a statement calling for inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency or “spies,” as the statement called them, to be expelled from Iran.
A small protest also took place on Friday night in front of Rouhani’s home in Tehran, with protesters calling for war with the United States, the New York Times reported.
Guess this is the first (or one of the first) time(s) a picture of Biden is being set on fire in protest at the US, even before he takes office.
A gathering of hardline Iranians in Mashhad, warning against talks with Biden in the aftermath of #Fakhrizadeh assassination pic.twitter.com/b0YjeCTtgt— AzeR HetsaaahK (@hetsaaahk) November 28, 2020
“No to submission, no to concession with America, only war with America,” the protesters yelled.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Just remember that according to leaders of Israeli intelligence and the Mossad the Iran Nuclear Deal was imperfect but working. Bibi, Dermer, and Trump blew it up with no replacement. Now we are faced with chaos and c”v worse. Iran has increased its uranium production and decreased its breakout time since Trump pulled out of the agreement. It is doubtful that Israel even has the capacity to take out Iran’s atomic program with airstrikes. Even if Israel was successfull it would push back the nuclear program less than the 10 years in the Iran nuclear deal.
Attention: Yeshiva World
I thought our Rabbis always taught us
אל תפתח פה לשטן
The headlines about Tel Aviv, I don’t think is a good idea.
Please reconsider that decision.
Again Iranian students? Didn’t we see what “students” did in 1979? Call them what they are – potential terrorists and murderers.
Hashem always protected us. Hashem is constantly protecting us. Please Hashem continue to protect us from the evil forces.
i am just wondering, אל תפתח פה – what about in writing?
Another interesting shaila to think about, אפילו אם כתיבה כדיבור, what about typing which appears on a screen, does that also have a דין of דיבור?
Until these shailos have been paskened by gedoiley Yisroel i agree that we should be careful, i am not encouraging this sort of writing, just raising the point, that maybe it’s not so bad….