{"id":8222,"date":"2018-05-09T21:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2018-05-09T21:33:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T21:33:19","slug":"iranian-lawmakers-burned-a-us-flag-and-chanted-death-to-america-in-parliament-after-trumps-nuclear-deal-pullout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/09\/iranian-lawmakers-burned-a-us-flag-and-chanted-death-to-america-in-parliament-after-trumps-nuclear-deal-pullout\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian lawmakers burned a US flag and chanted \u201cdeath to America\u201d in parliament after Trump\u2019s nuclear deal pullout."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a live address on Israeli television after Trump\u2019s announcement of US withdrawal from the Iran\u00a0nuclear deal, Netanyahu expressed \u201cfull support\u201d for the president\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By: AP<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iranian lawmakers lit a US flag on fire at parliament Wednesday after President Donald Trump\u2019s nuclear deal pullout, shouting, \u201cDeath to America!\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The impromptu demonstration reflected anger in Iran after Trump\u2019s decision, which threatens to destroy the 2015 nuclear accord. While Iranian officials, including the parliament speaker, say they hope Europe will work with them to preserve the deal, many are pessimistic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The lawmakers, including a Shiite cleric, held the flaming flag alight as their colleagues joined their chants. They also burned a piece of paper representing the nuclear deal and stomped on the papers\u2019 ashes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While <a href=\"https:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/iran-celebrates-revolution-with-burning-of-us-israeli-flags\/\">US flag burning is common in Iran<\/a> and harsh criticism of America has been a staple of Iranian parliamentary politics for years, it was the first time political observers could remember anything being burned inside the parliament itself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Late Tuesday night, President Hassan Rouhani made a point of stressing that Iran, at any time, could resume its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSo if necessary, we can begin our industrial enrichment without any limitations,\u201d the Iranian leader said. \u201cUntil implementation of this decision, we will wait for some weeks and will talk with our friends and allies and other signatories of the nuclear deal, who signed it and who will remain loyal to it. Everything depends on our national interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wednesday morning after the flag burning, parliament speaker Ali Larijani urged the country\u2019s nuclear department to prepare for \u201cresumption of all aspects of nuclear activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"a-single a-102\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added, \u201cas we exposed last week, since the deal, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear weapons program. So if you leave all of this unchanged, all this combined is a recipe for disaster, a disaster for our region, a disaster for the peace of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Watch the Israeli prime minister\u2019s words of thanks and support for Trump\u2019s \u201cbold decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a live address on Israeli television after Trump\u2019s announcement of US withdrawal from the Iran\u00a0nuclear deal, Netanyahu expressed \u201cfull support\u201d for the president\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8224,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/egretnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}