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Iranian company makes US flags for protesters to destroy
By Lee Brown, February 10, 2020
Iranians burn a US flag during a demonstration against American "crimes" in Tehran.
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A small Iranian company proudly makes thousands of US flags every year — just so they can be desecrated by protesters.
Diba Parcham Khomein, based near Khomein, the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, makes around 6,000 American, British and Israeli flags each year.
Almost all of them are destined to be sold to Iranian political hard-liners for around $2 apiece — to be stomped on, torn and ultimately set ablaze during protests and rallies in the Islamic Republic.
Factory owner Abolfazl Khanjani said that recent tensions had seen production “triple” in recent years — and his sister, Azam, refuses to hide her satisfaction at how they will be desecrated.
“This year, as I sewed every flag, I was excited that they were going to be burned,” Azam told the Associated Press.
“My feeling is just hatred when I sew them. It does not give me a good feeling,” she said of the flags, blaming the “torment” of last month’s killing of Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, for heightening the hatred.
Khanjani insisted that he has no control over how the flags are ultimately treated — and believes that desecrating them causes no real harm.
“Does the production of US flags for burning pose any danger to anyone? Does it hurt anyone? My answer is no. It is an insult at worst,” he said.
“But what about the production of weapons, bombs and drones for terror that have been used against our people and our country’s general? Has it not harmed my country?”
Still, he holds out hopes for better relations between Tehran and the US so that the flags made by his 40 staff can be treasured, not burned.
“I hope there is a day that the flags we produce are presented as a gift,” he told the AP.
He even showed off a painting by his 8-year-old son, Aria, with the US and Iran flags side by side. “The president of the US has shaken the hand of Iranian president and they have become friends,” the optimistic caption reads.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/iranian-company-makes-us-flags-for-protesters-to-destroy/
Iranian company makes US flags for protesters to destroy
By Lee Brown, February 10, 2020
Iranians burn a US flag during a demonstration against American "crimes" in Tehran.
Getty Images
A small Iranian company proudly makes thousands of US flags every year — just so they can be desecrated by protesters.
Diba Parcham Khomein, based near Khomein, the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, makes around 6,000 American, British and Israeli flags each year.
Almost all of them are destined to be sold to Iranian political hard-liners for around $2 apiece — to be stomped on, torn and ultimately set ablaze during protests and rallies in the Islamic Republic.
Factory owner Abolfazl Khanjani said that recent tensions had seen production “triple” in recent years — and his sister, Azam, refuses to hide her satisfaction at how they will be desecrated.
“This year, as I sewed every flag, I was excited that they were going to be burned,” Azam told the Associated Press.
“My feeling is just hatred when I sew them. It does not give me a good feeling,” she said of the flags, blaming the “torment” of last month’s killing of Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani, for heightening the hatred.
Khanjani insisted that he has no control over how the flags are ultimately treated — and believes that desecrating them causes no real harm.
“Does the production of US flags for burning pose any danger to anyone? Does it hurt anyone? My answer is no. It is an insult at worst,” he said.
“But what about the production of weapons, bombs and drones for terror that have been used against our people and our country’s general? Has it not harmed my country?”
Still, he holds out hopes for better relations between Tehran and the US so that the flags made by his 40 staff can be treasured, not burned.
“I hope there is a day that the flags we produce are presented as a gift,” he told the AP.
He even showed off a painting by his 8-year-old son, Aria, with the US and Iran flags side by side. “The president of the US has shaken the hand of Iranian president and they have become friends,” the optimistic caption reads.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/iranian-company-makes-us-flags-for-protesters-to-destroy/
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