2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The Iranians are not MY enemy. [View all]eridani
(51,907 posts)"the government"? But Iranians? That's just disgusting.
https://photosiran.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/irans-exceptional-reaction-to-911-attacks-candlelit-vigils-for-the-victims-and-60k-soccer-fans-respected-a-minutes-silence-2/
Irans sympathetic response to the American tragedy has been exceptional for a country under US economic siege for two decades. Only hours after the Sept. 11 attack, President Muhammad Khatami condemned it, as did Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Other officials have sent sympathetic messages, including one from the mayor of Tehran to the mayor of New York the first public official contact between Iran and the US since the 1979 Iranian revolution. [
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More important, 60,000 spectators observed a minute of silence during a soccer match in Irans Azadi Stadium, and hundreds of young Iranians held a candle-lit vigil in Tehran.
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