Posted on 07/09/2003 10:53:16 PM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:05:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Members of Congress yesterday joined a raucous crowd of roughly 1,000 Iranians on the lawn of the Capitol to voice their support for student uprisings against Iran's Islamic fundamentalist government.
"We are here to stand with the Iranian people, who are resisting an oppressive regime, a regime that has refused to reform," said Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, who led the crowd in chants of "Iran Ahh-zad," which means "Free Iran."
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