`DEATH TO AMERICA': Inside Iran, a rift between the people and the clerics

Chicago Tribune ^ | June 23, 2002 | James O'Shea

[SJackson]

Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati got them going. As the powerful cleric and key figure in Iran's Islamic government ripped into America in a fiery sermon during Friday prayers, a lone voice far back in the crowd yelled "Margbar Amrika."

Before long, the isolated chant had turned into a roar as thousands of worshipers screamed "Death to America" in Farsi, taking on the cadence of a high school pep rally. The owlish Jannati looked on with pride and when the chants died down, he continued his vengeful sermon a stone's throw from two Americans watching the spectacle.

[Shermy]

Good article. Thanx.

[Thorondir]

DEATH TO ISLAM!

How do you like those apples, you low-life, seventh-century, turd-world, loser, FREAK?

[Tao Yin]

That's one way to say it. Can't say I disagree. I wish it didn't have to be this way, but you have to but a rabid dog down.

[Grampa Dave]

Afghanistan was a good start.

Now about one billion left to bag and place on the curb for garbage pickup.

[Orion78]

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