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WatermelonRat

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10. The last time it was said in Iran?

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 11:08 AM

Mar 2014

It can be assumed that it was said last Friday, as it is regular practice to chant it during Friday prayers. That's not noteworthy enough to be in the news, though, so let's go with the rally last month:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/12/world/middleeast/anniversary-of-islamic-revolution-in-iran.html?_r=0
And I imagine they also chanted it on the national holiday "Death To America Day".

Try to minimize and justify it all you like, it remains a fact that it is regularly said in Iran and given official endorsement. I don't buy the attempts to dismiss it as mere metaphor or rhetoric any more than I do when teabaggers start talking about "second ammendment remedies".

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