‘Death to Saudi & US’: Thousands of mourners attend funeral for Tehran attack victims
RT.com
9 Jun, 2017
Thousands have turned out to mourn the victims of the Tehran attacks, shouting “Death to Saudi Arabia” and “Death to America.” It comes after Iranian leaders accused Washington and Riyadh of supporting the attacks which killed 17 people earlier this week.
Crowds gathered on the streets of the Iranian capital to shout slogans against the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel on Friday, while reaching out to touch coffins wrapped in flags and covered in flowers.
Earlier on Friday, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the attacks would only increase Tehran’s hatred against the US and its “stooges” including Saudi Arabia.
The attack “will not damage the Iranian nation’s determination and the obvious result is nothing except an increase in hate for the governments of the United States and their stooges in the region like Saudi (Arabia),” he said ahead of the funeral, according to state media.
During the funeral, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani called the US the “international” version of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL). He also accused Washington of exchanging democracy for money, referencing a massive arms deal recently agreed between the US and Saudi Arabia.
He went on to state that anti-Iranian remarks by Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister and US President Donald Trump were a “matter of disgrace.”
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