Death to…some other country
From the Huffington Post liveblogging of the Iranian Revolution in progress, 1:59 PM ET — “Death to Russia!”:
“Traditionally, there’s this guy at the Friday prayers whom people mockingly call ‘vazireh shoaar’, or the minister of slogans. His job is to shout slogans through loudspeakers and lead the crowd to chant death to America or Israel or whoever after him. In this clip you hear the crowd going flatly against him as he desperately cycles through the usual slogans (death to America, death to Israel, death to England and so on), and regardless of what he shouts, the crowd keeps repeating one chant: ‘marg bar roosiyeh’ (Death to Russia) !!”
Isn’t it great to hear a crowd in the Middle East chanting “Death to…” somebody else for a change?
Tags: iran