Despite a nuclear deal with President Barack Obama that is loosening years of international sanctions, Iranian took to the streets in the thousands Wednesday to celebrate the anniversary of the 1979 embassy hostage crisis… and Obama won’t do anything about it, for fear up upsetting his so-called “friends”.
Thousands of Iranians burned the American flag and chanted slogans as they marked the anniversary of the seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran by militant students 36 years ago.
An Iranian official also chose the occasion to announce the arrest of an unspecified number of allegedly pro-American writers.
On Nov. 4, 1979, militant students stormed the U.S. Embassy compound and took 52 Americans hostage after Washington refused to hand over the toppled U.S.-backed shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, for trial in Iran. The students held the hostages for 444 days, and the two countries have had no diplomatic relations since then.
Protesters on Wednesday carried placards reading “political and security penetration is forbidden.” They pumped their fists in the air, shouting “God damn America,” and “No compromise, no surrender to U.S.”
Others carried banners rejecting U.S. fast food chains McDonald’s and Starbucks. Authorities recently closed a newly opened knock-off of KFC, in part because it looked American.
Hard-liners view fast food outlets and other American products as part of a “cultural invasion” by the U.S. aimed at undermining Islamic rule and public morality.
Foreign firms are poised to return to Iran following the lifting of international sanctions under the nuclear deal, but it remains unclear whether American brands will be allowed in.
Iran’s state TV showed similar demonstrations in other Iranian cities to mark the occasion, known as the “National Day against Global Arrogance.”
Wednesday’s rally in Tehran also saw State Prosecutor Ebrahim Raeisi announce that the intelligence department of the elite Revolutionary Guard had detained a number of writers.
“The intelligence and security forces identified and cracked down on a network of penetration in media and cyberspace and detained spies and writers hired by Americans,” he told the rally, without elaborating.
“Under no circumstances will we allow penetration of Americans in economic, social and cultural areas,” he added.
Iran has arrested a number of activists, journalists and artists since Rouhani’s 2013 election and currently holds four Iranians with U.S. citizenship, including a Washington Post reporter. Analysts say the arrests are the work of hard-liners in the judiciary and the security forces.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
It’s about time the United States start taking care of there own Country…personally I would end it all and BOMB them all….you can’t help them and we have let our Country go to hell with our Government wanting to gain off other Countries…OIL,and we need a leader that will cut them all off…
That’s real intelligent. Let’s just nuke Iran and probably a bunch of other Middle East countries, too, while we’re at it. I’m sure Russia won’t mind. That won’t start anything at all, will it? I’m not sure in which way I would prefer to go: instantaneously in an all-out nuclear war or slowly in a nuclear winter. Which is YOUR preference, Judith?
world needs to get it through their thick skulls that Islamic countries are stone age throw backs and need to be cut off from contact with the civilized world!
looking forward to comunication
The best thing that could happen to Iran is the leadership to be assassinated. But the people are too chicken so the next best thing is when they launch a missile is for Israel and the rest of the Arabs to nuke them into oblivion. Our chicken military won’t do anything. Why?
Obama’s dad and mom were Muslims.
I wonder how best our “military” should handle Iran. Would it be better to nuke Iran back to the stone age? Or, should we send a million troops there to take them on in a massive land war? What would be the best way, Rodney, for us to simply wipe out Iran?
Bombs laced with Raid Roach killer that’s what they are cokaroach infested, stinking, vermin, scummy cowards.
Once again we see the foolishness of President Obama and John Kerry as it relates to their deal with Iran. The deal will do nothing to stop Iran from getting or using a nuclear weapon. It makes President Obama feel good. It allows him to have another “success” for his administration, but the agreement is ineffective.
One more year and two months and we are rid of the American Muslim. Thank God!! Oh, can I say that?
He may be arrested before that, and to think this guy received the Nobel Peace prize. What a joke
Are you sure he’s is in fact an American He lied so much about his birth place and never had to show a proof Ie.Birth certificate, until he was cornered and all of a sudden he produced one who knows if that one wasn’t forged
With a muslim in the WH, don’t expect anything good to happen. He is bringing more & more muslims to the US & the communist dems are all in. GOD help us.
Nothing shy of a Revival of the Church and the Christians of this country and the world is going to change the direction we are going in. Last election, a simple 1/3 of voting public went to the polls. Along with the Illegal operation of the Obama regiem, and the “head burring” of the people of this nation it really should not surprise any one concerned about the condition we find ourselves in. Scripture clearly shows us this world is on the verge of The Rapture of the Church and the end of civilization as we know it today. Abraham Lincoln told us “this nation will never be defeated from outside. If and WHEN we fail, it will be because we have destroyed ourselves.” Destruction has happened, next, the Rapture. May God have Mercy on us.
AMEN TO THAT!!!!!!!
The Founding Fathers of this United States of America have all turned in thier graves. Our President hates this nation and clearly told everyone with a heart beat 7 years ago that he was going to Change this Nation and he has. and We The People have stuck our heads in the sand and have allowed our country to be destroyed. Congress is nothing but 545 whores in Washington DC that have sold their souls to the lobyests. Not one Voting District still hold the feet of their representatives to Washington DC to the FIRE of service of their respective Districts. A recent statement from a Female Senator in California seems to sum up Congress’s attitude towards the Voting Public. “I make the decisions in my District. The voting public doesn’t know whats good for them. I do!.” Guess how many others in Washington DC have the same respect for the Voting public! Look at the dollars that are going to nations that hate the very flag of our country and then turn around and look at Social Security and Medicare and You wonder why? Why is this system failing? Our Country has the largest unemployed population it has ever had. But, we stuck our heads in the sand and have allowed Obama to bring im Millions of illegals to take jobs Our population needs. You ask? when is it going to stop? It isn’t. “if and when our country is destroyed, it will be because WE allowed it to be!” May God have mercy on us!
Since when has ANYONE considered Iran to be our “allies,” as ridiculously implied by the title of this article? Even Obama, Dodo Maximus-In-Charge, would not call them such. As if using that word in the title wasn’t stupid enough, The Horn News then proceeds to double down on its stupidity by saying Obama won’t do anything about Iranians protesting America in the streets because of fear of upsetting his so-called “friends.” What “friends”? The Iranian mullahs? Those religious knuckleheads are now our “friends”? Because we made a nuclear deal with them? Yeah, those are our buddies, just as Hitler and Stalin were pals. I’m going to lump one other person in with Obama and Kerry when it comes to a serious deficiency in brain cells: the person who conceived and wrote this article for The (so-called) Horn News.
MAYBE WE SHOULD START CELEBRATING THE SHAH’S BIRTHDAY IN HONOR OF IRAN.
DEPORT IMMEDIATELY >>>DEVILS ADVOCATE
You need to look into the resent history of IRAN to see why they feel the way they do about AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAN.They are not hateing just to hate. Look at how they STOLE thier oil.removed thier elected offical who was going to stop the bleeding,and installed a CIA backed killer who only cared about himself and a hand full of rich people foreign and domestic. Look close to understand why a certian thing is happening. Not that hateing is justified but to understand why it is there.
Goodness man…they (Iranians) hate The United States. They hate the US because of our support for Israel, the little Satan & any country allied to the US. They burn our flag (we don’t do that), they lock up innocent US citizens ( we don’t lock up people just because they’re Iranian unless they broke the law) and we don’t chant “Death to Iran” to spew our hate. I would like to understand where all this hate come from but there’s just too much hurt and betrayal at this point to really care about it… so YEAH nuke the troublemakers and their leaders! Bye bye. Next is ISIS. I would like to see each one beheaded, raped, set on fire, and slowly killed for at 3 weeks if not months and furthermore…ok I’m finished.
Tommy Kelly
You are just short of being an idiot.
THIS SOUND SO DESPICABLE, OBAMA NEEDS TO BE IMPEACH IMMEDIATELY FOR HIDING, AIDING, ABETTING ALL THE INFORMATION PERTAINING TO HIS RELATIONSHIP TO ISLAMIC AND MUSLIM TERRORIST AND ISIS……MORE THOROUGH INVESTIGATION NEEDS TO BE DONE ON HIS ADMINISTRATION IN ORDER FOR THE LIGHT OF JUSTICE TO PREVAIL…WHY OBAMA RUSH IN TO WITHDREW TROOPS FROM OVERSEA IMMEDIATE AFTER HE SWORN IN AS A PRESIDETN OF THE UNITED STATES THEN????? SOMETHING REALLY NEED TO SCRUTINIZE AND INVESTIGATED THOROUGHLY IN HIS UNSCRUPULOUS AND MALADMINISTER CONDUCT AS FAR AS WAR WITH ISIS AND TERRORIST FROM THE SAME OF HIS SO CALL MUSLIMS AND ISLAMIC……ONE OF THE MAIN REASON WHY THINGS TURNOUT CHAOTIC AND TERRIBLY CHAOS IN AMERICA…..WHICH NEVER WAS LIKE IT BEFORE UNTIL HE TOOK OFFICE IN 2008….I REALLY DON’T LIKE THE WAY OUR COUNTRY STANDS AND BECOME SINCE 2008 TO PRESENT…..THEREFORE, TRUMP MUST BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT LEADER….HE SOUNDS VERY ADAMANT AS A GOOD LEADER OF AMERICA IN ALL AREAS, PLUS BRINGING AMERICA TO BE GREAT AGAIN IS THE BOTTOMLINE.
SINCERELY
MASANIAI, TE’E JR.
VIETNAM WAR VETERAN
PURPLE HEART RECIPIENT………NOBLER CAUSE, FAITHFUL, HONOR, COURAGE, AND COMMITMENT……..SEMPER-FI
This Iran Nuclear deal will give Iran at least 150 billion dollars to do the following: 1)Increase world wide terrorism 2)enable them to complete intercontinental ballistic missle (sic) program 3)buy additional military and other equipment to increase their military might 4) do more nuclear testing to complete their nuclear program 5)help them prop up the Assad regime in Syria against U. S. interests 6) give the government more power to pervert the population back 1,400 years to barbarism. anachronistic, This is all for the purpose of Obama being able to help his Muslim buddies against the best interests of the U.S. Iran always keeps their promises and Iran would never lie or cheat on any of their promises, isn’ t that right.
“and Obama won’t do anything about it, for fear up upsetting his so-called “friends”…..All these MUZZIES are the DC DICTAOR’S Friends….Certainly are not the Friends of this Country and the American People…