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To: Lakeside Granny
Good morning, Gran!

Guess we need to send this Al Reuters article to the Senate Sergeant at Arms....

In divided Iran, president's death met by muted mourning and furtive celebration

Reuters ^ | 21/5/24 | Parisi Hafezi
Posted on 5/21/2024, 6:15:26 AM by Eleutheria5

DUBAI, May 20 (Reuters) - Iran proclaimed five days of mourning for President Ebrahim Raisi on Monday, though the muted atmosphere revealed little of the spectacular public grief that has accompanied the deaths of other senior figures in the Islamic Republic's 45-year history. While government loyalists packed into mosques and squares to pray for Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian, both killed in a helicopter crash, most shops remained open and the authorities made little effort to interrupt ordinary life.

A year after Raisi’s hardline government cracked down violently to end the biggest anti-establishment demonstrations since the 1979 revolution, opponents even posted furtive video online of people passing out sweets to celebrate his death....

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2,967 posted on 05/21/2024 5:26:31 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Jane Long

I’m sure the Iranian people would love to be dancing in the streets in pure celebration of this evil man’s death.

The way the ByeDone Regime reacted tells us they are definitely on the side of evil.

Will ByeDone attend the funeral?


2,972 posted on 05/21/2024 5:57:46 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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