Large number of Iranian athletes, many of them holders of national titles in different fields of sports, on Sunday afternoon held demonstrations in front of the center for research studies at Uranium Conversion Facility (UCF) in Isfahan and formed a symbolic human chain to display national support for civilian nuclear program.
The demonstration took place simultaneously with national conference of the Physical Education Organization in Isfahan.
The athletes chanted slogans of 'nuclear energy is our legitimate right', 'Death to US', and 'Death to Israel'.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0601223868193539.htm
Well, now I won't feel so bad if a errant bomb hit them.
Different decade, same old crap. At least the Western media doesn't have to paint their signs for them THIS time around.
Anyone chanting death to the U.S. is a legitimate target of the U.S.
Here's the part where they lose me. What does "death to Israel, death to US" have to do with their right to nuclear energy? It just seems to be an odd coincidence to put those two phrases together. (Shrugs)
"Large number of Iranian athletes..."
Read Suvorov. Most Soviet athletes were Spetnaz. I'll bet they taught the Iraniansto do the same.
Re your #20 -
"Large number of Iranian athletes, many of them holders of national titles in different fields of sports, on Sunday afternoon held demonstrations..."
Remember what Saddamn's boys did to their soccer players who lost a game?
These "Athletes" no doubt knew what would be the fate of any of them who showed the slightest hesitation in their participation or enthusiasm in said "demonstrations".
Maybe the dissenting Iranians are just so overpowered by the Mullahs that they've resigned themselves to whatever fate they bring upon the entire population - children and all - and are too intimidated to resist.
Perhaps they figure that death by nuclear incineration is better than a slow, agonal death by torture at the hands of the Iatollah's goons.
Or do they just lack the cahunahs to mount an "insurgency" against the powers that are dragging them towards an almost certain extinction?
I don't know... do you?
Their best chance for survival seems to be in fighting for their lives against the lunatics controlling them, not the majority of the rest of the World.
But if the World's survival requires catastrophy - as tragically it might - for the Iranian people...
Then alas, that's how it will probably come down.